It is often said that it is unproductive to vote for any third party. Because, you know, they don’t have any chance of actually winning.
Why do you think it is that third parties are not more successful?
Perhaps it has a TINY bit to do with the fact that ALL election laws are made and implemented by the major parties.
Perhaps it even makes a difference that both the media and major parties are owned by the same corporations.
It may be slightly pertinent that the presidential debates are controlled by a private corporation run by the major parties.
It could be partly due to the false narrative of self-fulfilling circular thinking that "they can't win, so I won't vote for them, so they can't win, so I won’t vote for them," encouraged by the major parties.
There is a good chance that they are stymied by people who spread this false narrative, deriding those who actually WANT to change things. Who, instead of working for change, fall for the "lesser evilism" argument, which is the ONLY "positive" attribute the major parties embody. Who make arrogant, uninformed pronouncements of "ineptitude" while simultaneously making excuses for the parties who GOT us here, and KEEP us here. Who refuse to alter their attitude and opinion in spite of obtaining new information, preferring instead, to defend their abusers.
What do you think? Do you think ANY of these things matter? At all? Probably not. Facts don't seem to matter, either on the right or the supposed "left" within major party politics. Cognitive dissonance is not exclusive to the extreme right-wing.
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