https://lemmy.org/u/BargainMithril posted on Mar 18, 2026 08:03
I don’t vote for third party candidates because they have yet to offer one that has been tested in the crucible of actual real-world politics.
And predictably, they all vanish into obscurity between elections leaving us to fend for ourselves while they cash in on paid dinners and speeches.
Not a single one of them has ever walked the walk.
When they offer someone up that isn’t just promising bullshit that can’t ever work in the real would, I’ll definitely make a strong consideration to vote for them. Until then, I’ll continue to vote for realistic goals over lofty ones.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (according to the two big parties that routinely get 80% of the votes)
Every 4 years, the Jill Stein emerged from her cave for a few months to talk about how bad the Democrat candidate is before retreating back into darkness.
Is “the darkness” what we’re calling “wherever Putin tells her to hide”?
I hope we don’t see that in Canada. We definitely looked that way last election but the yellow party had a pretty weak showing and the red party took a lot of votes to prevent the blue party from winning. Hopefully things reset a bit next election.