Originally Posted by Robbie

That's true.

I also voted for the Libertarian candidates in my state elections and local elections for that very reason.

If enough people get fed up and stop voting for Republicans and Democrats it WILL change over time.

I'm sure the Democrats were surprised when the "Whig Party" (4 Presidents were members of that party) came to power over them in the early 19th century as well.

And I'm sure that the Whig's themselves never thought that THEY would be gone.

Things can change. Right now the Democrats and Republicans have made laws that pretty much make it almost impossible for a third party candidate to get elected.
But IF a third party ever gets into the White House, then it will make that party viable to the sheeple and then Congress and the Senate will start getting them too.

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Gary Johnson didn't even receive 1% of the vote in the 2012 Presidential Election, so good luck with that...



It would be interesting if the Libertarians, Green Party, and other people unhappy with the "two-party system", would spearhead a movement for proportional representation, so that instead of being a spoiler which ends up actually hurting the party they are more closely aligned with, and actually helping the party they are less like, they could have some representation, or join a coalition with the party they are more like, in order to get parts of their minority agenda considered (examples in the US would be Ross Perot hurting Bush and helping Clinton, and Ralph Nader hurting Al Gore and helping Bush Jr).



The current system is stacked against alternative candidates/parties, and makes third party challenges rather futile.



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