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Well, if you truly understood that video, then you would know that by voting independent you're fracturing the vote away from the one-of-two major parties, which means victory for the bad guys. It explains this.
Look, I 100% agree with you that what we have is absolute shit. You're preaching to the choir. But the bad guys aren't going to fracture their vote. They're just not.
The system is the issue, and what we have to work with is by design. If you vote for anything but one of the two parties in power, you're just giving the worst of the two the actual win.
The ONLY way to fix this is to fix the system. Period. End of discussion. That's the cold hard truth.
Why do you think so many Russian trolls tried to push Bernie so hard back in 2016? Because they actually understand that video - you can't do SHIT as an independent running in the system unless EVERYONE does it.
You're incredibly passionate about our plight - so am I. Even if we don't agree on everything, we're in a small subset of people that are INVOLVED and INFORMED. The general populace is fairly dumb as shit. Their knowledge goes about an inch deep. Unless you can guarantee that EVERYONE is going to switch from Dem to independent, your suggestion is literally doomed to fail.
Our two parties are engrained at this point, for better or worse, and will not change until we change our First Past the Post voting system. Everyone that's disenfranchised with the Democratic party in this thread right now represents the owl voters in this video - watch it please, it's very clear at explaining why what you are suggesting will absolutely NOT WORK and will allow the GOP to win in perpetuity.
Unfortunately, those foot pedals are incredibly cheap in their construction. All plastic with a metal spring. Typically the plastic rod holding the upper piece to the lower piece is what breaks first. I've gone through many over the years using them as my push to talk button for various programs like teamspeak, mumble, and discord.
It's handy (or footy - ha! Dad joke) though to give yourself another key you can map to something other than your hands.
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We're not going to fix it by voting third party, period.
The only way it can be fixed is to do it through changes led by our elected officials. So we need to advocate for and support people that can make it happen. We need to protest for it, push for it, put people in power that support it.
If someone doesn't support it, we need to exercise our votes together and get someone in there that's more progressive and will fight to make changes, not preserve the status quo.
But we can't lose sight of the drawbacks of our voting system while we work to see those changes implemented.
We can't get there by fracturing our vote into two less powerful groups/parties. They will win every time, because they're united.
We have to get people ready to exercise their vote for a united cause/person.
People like the person in this thread that folded like a napkin when starting to have a tough conversation are part of the problem - either we fix it together or we lose. If we just bitch about our problem and don't act, we lose.
Put your energy in getting the right person in power to support, and help them! That's the only way we're truthfully going to fix this.