I'm gonna say something unpopular now

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71. Voting third party is absolutely senseless and counter productive

You don't see right wingers do this, they rationalize getting behind their candidates regardless of horrid they are.

We don't have to be like that, and we don't normalize and support lunatics like they do.

But, this is one of the many factors that makes nearly every election a coin toss, which gives Rs the ability to win enough elections to have power and control of most states, control of congress more often than not and the ability to fill our federal courts with full on right wing activist judges.

That said ... while it is a significant factor, it is not the primary factor.

The primary factor is that nearly half the country chooses to succumb to hateful right wing propoganda that poisons their minds and leads them to create this alternative world view where they are victims to and in some kind of life or death battle against the evil liberal boogyman and allow themselves to be herded around like zombies.