Why #ThirdPartyVoting-Might Work but -Probably Won't (hint: They Don't Consider Votes-Against-Candidates) | @TopTenz #ThirdPartyVotingBackfires #Third #Three #Thirty #3 #30
Our leaders aren't the ones who get 'more votes,' so much as they get 'the highest percentage of The Vote.' ... I know, it sounds like I'm "just saying the same thing in two different ways," but I'll show you how I'm not ... soon ... first I need to review 'what the deal is with third-party voting'
First, let's look at 'that word' (below-hyperlinked to 'The Top Ten(z) Third-Parties Currently (May 14, 2014) Active in the U.S.') is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
I search for 'why third-party votes backfire,' and I see "the hypocrisy of people online (mostly on Twitter) who 'block' others (because they disagree with them, not because they're trying to avoid getting hacked)"—hypocrisy that Lord Jesus Christ actually confirms (and sort of approves-of): that–if one person writes something, and another person reads it & doesn't respond in the negative–it becomes "truer."
When someone blocks you, they are confirming that hypocrisy—they don't want your opinion to be true, so they seek to prevent it by trying not to hear about it.
At 'the search I mention above,' I see lots of articles insisting that third-party votes don't backfire. And I'm tempted to go, "That's not what I'm looking-for! That's telling something that disagrees with 'what I'm trying to explain,' so I won't share that link with my readers!" but then I realized that that's exactly How "MAGAts" are able to continue supporting Trump (because they block all the things they hear from "LibTards").
But the conclusion I dig out of the confusion—as I mentioned above, your vote isn't 'an additional vote' but it's 'a percentage (of a percentage of a percentage) for- rather than against-the winner.'
I'm reminded of a meme I saw: 'change voter' after 'change voter' declaring that they'll "only vote for their favorite candidate and not the popular change-candidate," with 'the incumbent' at the bottom declaring, "Fine by me!"
To illustrate how that works for the incumbent—Imagine there are only seven voters. If there are only two candidates & three votes go for the incumbent (who sucks) while four votes go for a change. But if there are THREE candidates and the incumbent (who sucks) still gets his three votes, the change votes get mixed-up between the two 'good' candidates.
(They say 'third-party candidates take votes "equally from both major parties," but ... no—in primaries, Republican voters (at least in Oklahoma) aren't permitted to vote for the Third-Party candidates; and Republicans/Conservatives are oftentimes 'Loyal Voters' ... so Third-Party Candidates have to convince them differently than they convince 'Change Voters.')
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