Do you support third parties?

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 08-06-2010, 22:16

I am a US citizen and happen to be a voter as a Libertarian. I use to lean towards very conservative spectra/ Republican, since I always have had a burning hatred for liberals for some reason and the Democratic party. But the Republican party turn me off so to speak in the past 2 years, so now I went third party route.

Moderate Libertarian I am. What you guys think of third parties?

**Megas Methuselah** · 08-06-2010, 22:54

Burning hatred for...? Must be your crazy Amerikan media. I wouldn't wanna live in the little states down south. It's bad enough here as it is.

**PanzerJaeger** · 08-07-2010, 00:30

If you hate liberals, the worst thing you can do is divert a Republican vote toward the Libertarian party. Third parties serve primarily as spoilers, especially against a united opposition.The most well known example was the Bush/Pero split that let Clinton wiggle his way into office.

Focus on supporting/voting for libertarian GOP candidates in primaries if that is the type of agenda you support, but stick with the more conservative party that has a realistic chance of winning in the general. The alternative, as we've seen in the past two years, is so much worse.

Yes the two party system sucks, but it will take a fundamental change, likely involving legislation, to change it.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 08-07-2010, 01:14

I've never been clear on why people dislike the 2 party system. Don't like either party? Well what about having more than two would fix that? Is it really better to have a party you completely support, but that only has control of 10% of congress, than a party you only somewhat support that has control of 55%?

We would have more extremists in congress without the two party system I think.

**Furunculus** · 08-07-2010, 02:03

i have no problems with third parties, i just don't happen to support one.

and i come from a country where where we virtually have three main parties.

**Ronin** · 08-07-2010, 02:21

a third party?

you mean the republicans and the democrats actually count as 2 separate parties?

one learns something new every day :P

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 08-07-2010, 02:31

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

I've never been clear on why people dislike the 2 party system. Don't like either party? Well what about having more than two would fix that? Is it really better to have a party you completely support, but that only has control of 10% of congress, than a party you only somewhat support that has control of 55%?

We would have more extremists in congress without the two party system I think.

Because for starters, both parties been increasing the US debt in the past 65 years.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 08-07-2010, 02:46

Originally Posted by |Sith|R|AntiWarmanCake88

Because for starters, both parties been increasing the US debt in the past 65 years.

But this itself is not a criticism of the two party system. Can you show that debt would not have been increasing if we didn't have a two party system? In countries without the two party system, has their debt not been increasing?