I think of these sorts of things whenever I see those stock video clips of suburban streets. House after house after house, each with a 2 or 3 car garage.
Multiply that through by all the houses in this country with those garages. Cars have better housing stock than people.
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First off, 80 years is more like FOUR generations.
Second, the last non Democratic, non Republican President was Millard Fillmore, who was elected not 80 years ago, but *173* years ago in 1850, and he was a member of the Whig Party, which collapsed shortly after Fillmore was out of office at the end of his only term, after which the Republican party, which rose from the ashes of the Whigs, the Free Soil party and similarly-driven Democrats, took its place.
Youโre just ignoring structural reality of the election system. And you should know better. Without proportional representation, extreme minority votes are erased. By definition of majoritarian counting.
My only point was that THIS election, a 3rd party vote is nothing but a not-D and not-R vote, because there is no 3rd party groundswell.
Maybe youโll luck out and get a political quake with a 3rd party rushing to the fore again, which most likely would be the MAGA party, as separate from the GOP. Would you like that?
In a majoritarian, first-past-the-post voting system, youโre not at all voting FOR a 3rd party candidate. Use your thinker. If you want to change things, change the voting system itself.
@aral Did you ever catch Rachel Parris and Nish Kumar on that show? probably most underrated comedy duo on TV. Nish played her foil/straight man usually without saying a word and I'd laugh just as much at his reactions as her writing/performance.
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