Reply #127: Those of you thinking of voting Green or not voting are simply wasting votes. [View All]

[backscatter712]

I hate the two party system as much as everyone else here, but that's what we've got, so learn to work it.

If you want to make things more progressive, and actually get things done, you need to support progressive candidates in the primaries, like Bill Halter. Support progressive members of Congress like Alan Grayson. Join some interest groups like ActBlue or Progressive Democrats of America, or Health Care for America NOW. Pick a group or six - there's zillions of them out there, you'll find some that fit your views. Volunteer, donate, push the system that way. That's how you get things done.

If you vote Green or sit out, thinking you're "teaching the Democrats a lesson for not being progressive enough", you're tilting at windmills, and you're being counterproductive. The spoiler/Naderization effect is real, and until the two party system is changed, you're helping the enemy when you vote third party.