Most US americans have been voting for Democrats or Republicans or not at all for decades. Of course the politics remain the same: Wars and politics that favor the richest.
Please, vote for the Green Party or another reasonable party in 2020.
It's something to think about if you don't like the candidates the major parties are running and thus assume your vote means nothing.
Search for "Minor party candidates" here for the specifics: https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understand...
https://mises.org/wire/26-percent-eligible-voters-voted-trum...
If you do not vote or vote for someone you do not want, your vote is worse than lost.
There is much potential for other parties. And while the presidential election is most important regarding war and the rest of the world, other elections for local politicians are important too and maybe even more important for US citizens.
Related talk: How To Eliminate The "Spoiler" Vote Phenomenon w/Jill Stein pt. 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgYEFxjJaUg
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/
Unfortunately to change the law you need voters who vote for a party that is willing to change it even though it came into power under the current law.
I'm not going to vote for someone just because they're different from the establishment if they have positions I find ridiculous.
Let take 2016 elections for example, your choices were; Hillary, responsible for a failed country right now and rigged primaries or Trump, the less said about him is better. If enough people voted for a different party, that would keep these two main parties in sort of a check as well, knowing they can't get away with whatever they want.
This idea that candidates need to perfectly represent everyone's opinions is just absurd. I don't agree with everything that Hillary did or that Trump is doing. That doesn't mean everything they did was bad or good.
But to suggest Jill Stein as a viable alternative when she has some dubious backing doesn't really empower choosing the 3rd party, does it?
You really believe that the POTUS (notably Jill Stein and the Green Party) could be paid by Russia to enforce Russian policies to the detriment of US citizens ?
This idea is as crazy as the idea that China invented global warming to harm the USA economy.
From https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2018/0111/93244...
Back in 2012, almost three years before he declared that he was going to run for the White House, Mr Trump tweeted: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
You really believe that nothing happened and there wasn't a concerted effort by Russia to significantly impact the election?
Whether or not the POTUS or candidates were complicit is one thing, but it's very clear that a significant impact on this election was made.
Hillary got more votes, and some DNC people were catty about Bernie over private email.
I even voted Bernie, I just can't stand seeing claims repeated without evidence. Put up or shut up.
Also thought the war was a direct consequence of more Democrats voting for Bush than the total number of votes Nader got.[0] Democrats favored Bush over Nader. The number of Democrats who voted for Bush exceeded those who voted for Nader five fold.
In the last state I lived in, Democrats were far more hostile to 3rd party candidates than Republicans were - putting in a lot more effort to ensure they wouldn't get on the ballet.
As someone who grew up in a country where people couldn't vote, I can't imagine acts more hostile to democracy than what I saw the Democrats do to limit choices on the ballot. I may vote Democrat often, but I don't see myself as ever supporting the party.
As far as registered Dems voting habitually R.. yeah, that happens, you should see the south.
And had Nader voters voted for Gore, they would not have gotten what they wanted either had Gore won. They voted Nader because they did not want Gore.
The only thing I can take away from your comment is that if your candidate lost, you wanted the wrong thing.
>As far as registered Dems voting habitually R.. yeah, that happens, you should see the south.
I do - and I see more Dems responsible for Bush than Nader voters.
500k dead Iraqis on account of how that election swung. You sure showed us Democrats.