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Hmmm. I wonder how a population comes to vote for a 3rd party in significant enough numbers to win a national election. Hmmmm. This is a tough one. How could that possibly happen?
I'm going to spitball here. Maybe a 3rd party would have to start by supporting city/county/state 3rd party candidates across the country so that over time that 3rd party eventually has an actual presence, let's say, in the House of Representatives, which boosts name recognition even more, so that one day maybe there's even some in the Senate and then, holy shit, all of a sudden there's an actual chance at winning a presidential election.
It's comical to state that all the population has to do is vote for them, without grasping that all these other steps don't need to happen first. I'm going to run the Barbie Party candidate in 2028 and when they don't win, I'm going to blame the populace for not voting for them.
Uh-huh, and yet some of the population ARE aware of these candidates without being spoon-fed their "name recognition". So if social and conventional news media filter out all candidates but those of a preferred uniparty, those should be ignored? Bullshit, wrong.