virginia is still full of dumbfucks. any vote for a demo or repub nominee is a vote for the two party system.
The two party system is a good thing.
Parties are a bad idea in general
a no-party system is far superior
yup. barring that, the more parties there are, the more it will be like a no party system, presumably. it will be harder for parties to monopolize influence and they'll have to survive on the results they get instead of the 'image' and propaganda and sensationalism of modern politics.
something about anarchy
i said minarchy. i.e. shrinking the government and expanding/emphasizing the responsibilities and rights of the citizens.
Regardless, I'm not voting for the one I think will win. I am voting for the lesser evil, but, I'm trying to think realistically, too.
yes, voting for the lesser evil, like i said. you are voting for someone so that he will beat the guy you dont want in office, instead of simply voting for your favorite candidate, right? that's what i said the problem was. ppl are voting defensively, trying to beat the guy they dislike the most. they're imagining the worst case scenario and voting to prevent it. the result is that the best case scenario, or even the average, doesn't occur, because the lesser evil is still evil and the parties won't nominate someone who will serve the people any more than we force them to. basically all they have to do is scare us a lot and they guarantee that whoever is second scariest wins, because everyone is so worried about what will happen if the scariest guy wins. and like i said the way to deal with this is eliminate one candidate at a time, then even if your favorite candidate doesnt win, you can still vote for the lesser evil down the road. however people will probably still vote with the same mindset until something is done to change public thinking about it, including the dominance of the media by the two parties. how do we pass laws (and not necessarily about the media coverage) about eliminating prejudice against third or non party, if the government is almost completely partisan? how do we establish a nonpartisan platform for evaluating candidates, that isn't dominated by whoever has the most money or some other form of disproportionate influence? and how will the parties react, seeing as how they've become no longer services of the people, but hierarchies and power structures bent on self-preservation? these questions are actually more important than which president we have next, due to the state to which the process has decayed. if the citizens' good isn't reasserted, it doesn't matter how you vote, and if it is reasserted, even the worst president and party of politicians will bend for it. after all, they're only public-use whores.