{"id":91778,"date":"2016-07-21T02:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T02:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/parliamentrook-bowiecadmium-fangirlscout\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:54:07","slug":"parliamentrook-bowiecadmium-fangirlscout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/parliamentrook-bowiecadmium-fangirlscout\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-91778 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/parliamentrook-bowiecadmium-fangirlscout\/attachment\/91779\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o6poepAgPj1vswacno1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o6poepAgPj1vswacno1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tumblr_o6poepAgPj1vswacno1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/parliamentrook.tumblr.com\/post\/147672584520\" target=\"_blank\">parliamentrook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bowiecadmium.tumblr.com\/post\/147650080419\" target=\"_blank\">bowiecadmium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fangirlscout.tumblr.com\/post\/147625734975\" target=\"_blank\">fangirlscout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fenland-witch.tumblr.com\/post\/147587179358\" target=\"_blank\">fenland-witch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cxnnxr-slxan.tumblr.com\/post\/147583690445\" target=\"_blank\">cxnnxr-slxan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ceallaig1.tumblr.com\/post\/147539532779\" target=\"_blank\">ceallaig1<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/zora-zen.tumblr.com\/post\/147525353650\" target=\"_blank\">zora-zen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/saarebitch.tumblr.com\/post\/147525017496\" target=\"_blank\">saarebitch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/barefootindecember.tumblr.com\/post\/147520299436\" target=\"_blank\">barefootindecember<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/provendermalkin.tumblr.com\/post\/147425677285\" target=\"_blank\">provendermalkin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/trumpsgloryhole.tumblr.com\/post\/143896797907\" target=\"_blank\">trumpsgloryhole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If Sanders doesn\u2019t get the nomination, and you can\u2019t see yourself voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, then don\u2019t. Vote third party.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the Libertarian or Green Party.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t feed the establishment by voting for Clinton, and don\u2019t feed authoritarian isolationism by voting for Trump.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>\n<b>No.<\/b> The absolute largest chunk of people considering changing their votes at the moment are disappointed non-conservatives. There was barely any competition among republicans; from the get-go, the voter base united behind Trump. If non-conservatives split their votes across multiple fronts, they WILL lose.<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>Voting third party in America throws your vote directly into the garbage. Our system does not work like Australia\u2019s. You don\u2019t get a second or third choice, and candidates who win aren\u2019t going to look at the numbers and say \u201cI see 25% of Americans voted Green, I should implement Green policies.\u201d That\u2019s not how it works. Conservative voters overwhelmingly back a single party, the GOP, while non-conservative voters are the ones that scatter across multiple, weak fronts when faced with an unappealing Democratic party nominee. Think about it like this:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/3c2f8f5b44891b6e2d4cbe18a21e10e7\/tumblr_inline_oac4xrmHd91r7ilwm_540.png\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The majority of Republican voters support Trump and are not changing their vote even though party leaders and figureheads are universally decrying him. They\u2019ve been groomed for decades by the GOP to be this way, and now party leaders have lost control of the impressionable voter base they created for themselves. There\u2019s nothing they can do about it at this point. While a small number of Republicans can and are switching parties, it\u2019s not very much. Meanwhile, Democrats are floundering, trying to decide which front to unite under. Some of them go to the Green party or Libertarians, sure; the rest stay with the Democratic party in the hopes that even with people leaving, they will have enough to block Trump. <b>But Trump doesn\u2019t need a majority of total Americans to vote for him; he only needs <i>more than the other candidates have. <\/i><\/b>Do you understand what I\u2019m saying? Trump could get 10% of the vote, but as long as no other party has more than 10%, he still wins. The second you split the left and middle across three or four fronts, the right seizes control. This is how it goes down every single fucking time we go through this. <\/p>\n<p><b>The other thing to consider is that the electoral college is NOT going to weigh in favor of a third party<\/b>. Doing so would be political suicide. They are paid to vote certain ways, and not doing so would fuck up their careers. Even if an entire state votes in favor of a third party, the electoral college is going to vote for whichever primary party matches up the closest, and sometimes not even that. Their votes are counted when making the actual choice of president; ours are not. They proved that with Gore. The majority of Americans voted for him; the electoral college installed Bush anyway and told us to suck it up. The question at this point is whether they\u2019d risk it a second time, and we have to hope that they won\u2019t, which is why <b>we have to unite under a single front to block Trump.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!!! People do not understand that under our plurality system, it doesn\u2019t matter if the majority of the population doesn\u2019t vote for Trump. As long as he has more than any of the other candidates, he wins. Splitting up the more liberal voters is now what non-Trump supporters want to do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRoss_Perot&amp;t=MmVhZDA3ZTM0ZDEzNTNiYWFlZDQxNzAwN2RkMzAyZjU3ODk3N2M1NSxacFk5ODhQcQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">THESE CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ROSS PEROT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Ralph Nader.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE, PLEASE! GOP is gonna vote Trump, they won\u2019t vote for a 3rd party person. That means a solid voting bloc. Dem who split the vote are in essence giving him a free vote. HILARY WITH ALL HER FAULTS IS STILL BETTER THAN TRUMP!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>GOD DAMNIT YALL BETTER NOT SPLIT THE DEM VOTES<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how the Conservative Party in the UK won the last election with less than 40% of the overall vote!!!!<br \/>\nDon\u2019t do it America! <\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/ba24bbd29298f0e088a823471bb8a900\/tumblr_inline_oai8f1pvA81sfk9eh_500.gif\" class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tmblr-attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/ZiK5cp22XdE8g\" target=\"_blank\">Originally posted by ohmyreactionsgifs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/73b73dbb912c2176c8a3eb41014dd0e2\/tumblr_inline_oajlb6kGnV1s1o200_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>NOT splitting the vote is how Canada snagged this magical unicorn man in the last election. \u00a0Basically everyone I know voted strategically, even if it was against their party, to ensure that Harper\u2019s crusty conservative ass was kicked the hell out. \u00a0Personally I waffle between the Green Party and the NDP politically, but I sure as heck voted Liberal last election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about how much Obama accomplished with a hostile Congress in 6 of his 8 years in office. <\/p>\n<p>Now think about how much Trump can \u201caccomplish\u201d with a Congress that isn\u2019t hostile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m legit scared of this election because of this. Our system is screwed up and I\u2019m sorry if you hate both parties (I\u2019m still shocked we ended up where we are), \u00a0but realistically, writing in Bernie because you\u2019re\u00a0\u201cBernie or bust\u201d or voting for a third party isn\u2019t going to work this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the upside, two conservatives I know are both voting libertarian because they don\u2019t want to vote Trump (my hubby said he\u2019d vote for dog before he\u2019d vote for Trump). Let the conservatives split their party, don\u2019t split ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>parliamentrook: bowiecadmium: fangirlscout: fenland-witch: cxnnxr-slxan: ceallaig1: zora-zen: saarebitch: barefootindecember: provendermalkin: trumpsgloryhole: If Sanders doesn\u2019t get the nomination, and you can\u2019t see yourself voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, then don\u2019t. Vote third party. Consider the Libertarian or Green Party. Don\u2019t feed the establishment by voting for Clinton, and don\u2019t feed authoritarian isolationism by voting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/21\/parliamentrook-bowiecadmium-fangirlscout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11047,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91780,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91778\/revisions\/91780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}