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US elections: European Greens call for Jill Stein to step down
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There's plenty of people who are not fine with the current system that would vote for a third party. I'm gonna make an assumption less stupid than yours and claim that actually most people are not fine with the current system and would gladly vote for another candidate if it wasn't for the narrative spinning the fight between red and blue.
The fight is between Red and Blue. FPTP election systems don't really allow new parties to become relevant — and if a new party did gain relevance, it would fully replace one of the existing parties within very few election cycles.
The point is: You need a Democratic or Republican majority to reform the election system first before the Greens or any other party can become a relevant factor. The US democratic system is older than the democratic systems of most other countries. And it shows.
All it takes for a party to become relevant is a pop star with million of followers making a post.
Meanwhile, actual pop stars
The people who are Republicans that would be voting third party aren't just going to vote for HARD-D. They're going to vote for someone closer to their home terf. They're going to vote for Chase Oliver (or maybe RFK in the states he's still on the ballot) as -- at best -- a protest vote.
FPTP is going to eventually converge into a 2 party system in the end anyways, it's basic statistics. Without a different method of voting, third party candidates are a throw-away vote.
You're not wrong about the rest - but your matchup of "Jill Stein is taking voters from Trump" is waaaaaaaaay off in left field. It's such a shiitake mushroom that you'd literally have to be living under a rock for the past 20 years to believe such a thing.
The majority of people who vote red or blue are simply picking a side they are not hard core fanatics.
Nah. In many places of the US you're told that it's your "identity". Kentucky, Tennessee, etc -- They are told from birth that they "ARE" Republicans. That it's a physical, tangible thing that identifies them. And yes - when they pick a side, it's based on their political leanings. Who leans closer to someone who's going to pick a republican candidate? Jill Stein, or Chase Oliver? -- the answer is Chase Oliver.
I'm sorry that you can't accept that you're wrong about the Jill Stein thing, but that's just simply how it be.