I think it’s time we start taking third parties seriously.
Not just as protest votes or long-shot statements, but as real vehicles for change.
The two-party system in this country has locked working-class people into a cycle of disappointment—every election feels like choosing the lesser evil, and meanwhile the things we actually need get pushed further out of reach.
When I voted for the Socialist Workers Party (no regrets!!), it wasn’t because I thought they’d win. It was because their platform actually reflects what I care about—jobs, housing, education, and peace.
I still love the Green Party too. Imagine if all working-class voters backed leaders like Eugene Debs, Ralph Nader, or Dr. Jill Stein.
These weren’t fringe lunatics—they were people calling for things we should already have: universal healthcare, a living wage, free public housing, and tuition-free universities.
That’s not utopia. That’s what other countries already do, while we dump billions into endless wars and police surveillance.
Meanwhile, our government lets corporations loot the planet and strip basic dignity from everyday people.
We could’ve built something by now. Something better.
Instead, we’re stuck in a system that props up fossil fuel giants, greenlights genocide, and ignores the climate clock ticking louder every year.
Voting third party isn’t throwing your vote away—it’s refusing to vote for your own oppression.
If enough of us did it together, they wouldn’t be third parties anymore. They’d be the people's party.
Yet instead of realising this, most Lemmy's still just stay mad that people like me didn't vote for the duopoly. lol
And I am sure they'd love that. Republican are more than welcome to vote for Green too. You seem to think that people don't know how to think for themselves and vote for whoever they want.
There is no such thing as a spoiler effect. Firstly, even like I said earlier, even if every single person that voted third party in the last election, would have voted for Harris instead, she still wouldn't have won. That's how big the margin was that she lost by. lmao
Secondly, people should vote for who they want. So there is no spoiler, because if someone wanted to vote for Green then they would vote for Green and not Democrats. People get to vote for whoever they want. That's not spoiling. That's democracy.
You seem to think that people don't know how to think for themselves and shouldn't vote for whoever they want. How is it a spoiler effect when someone doesn't like your candidate so they choose to vote for a different candidate?!
Using your logic, I can say that Harris had a spoiler effect because people voted for her rather than my Socialist Party! lol
So if they are so incompetent, then ya shouldn't worried about them or bothered by them. Right? :)
The democrats deserved to lose to Trump because they bow down to corporate interests just like the Republicans do. Both parties are the same!
Thanks, friend!