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Published 7 years ago by Appaloosa with 6 Comments

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  • leweb
    +6

    Can we get a third party candidate? Pretty please?

    • RoamingGnome
      +4

      We already have a couple. They don't go anywhere. What we need is to loosen the stranglehold that the media and the two main political parties have on our election system.

      • leweb
        +7

        So either the majority of people start thinking for themselves (lol!) or we need a revolution. And in that case I'm guessing Donald Trump is the best option. Americans are too comfy, so things would really need to turn super shitty for a revolution to happen. The fastest way to get there is Trump.

      • NinjaKlaus
        +2

        Third parties can't go anywhere because they are blocked from the media, I don't think Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or any other every cycle candidate will go anywhere, but the party can only benefit from the television time. It would in turn give them a higher percentage of polling, thus possibly make it where they appear on ballots without initiatives to get hundreds of thousands of signatures. The simple fact is the media can't allow that to happen because the two main parties don't want it. Third parties struggle for ballot access, they struggle for funds and they don't appear on TV unless they do something outlandish like Johnson by yelling Trump was a pussy.

        I mean for seeing how much the RNC and DNC control the media just look at the debates, Hilary and the DNC set the DNC schedule and the RNC was cutting out Repubs because there were too many which I feel translated to we don't have the time and energy and the RNC really wants them out of here. When we go to the general the media will work with the campaigns to claim third parties getting a certain percent will be allowed to debate, the catch is they will make sure those candidates can't get that percentage nationally.

      • Gozzin (edited 7 years ago)
        +2

        I sincerely doubt that will ever happen since those running the show behind the scenes call the shots.

        Anyway,if he plans to do it,he needs to do it already since talk is cheap as dirt and then some.

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