In a binary political system do you vote for the person that matches up with your beliefs or do you vote for somebody who doesn’t match?

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Yes we can always vote third-party there are third parties in the United States but they don’t win at all it’s a joke you might as will not vote at all in the United States

We have a binary choice you can vote for Democrats or you can vote for Republicans and you vote for whatever party Matches best with what you believe and what you support, and just because you agree more with one side then the other doesn’t mean that you agree with everything the side says or does.

im going to use my self as an example, I disagree with abortion I think it’s wrong to kill an unborn human I don’t believe then men can be women, I think a slower transition away from fossil fuel is a better way of dealing with climate change rather then a radical shift to the economy and infrastructure that coast trillions aka the green new deal. Mostly republicans ideas and priorities. Where i differ is I do support gay marriage I’m not religious even though I support religious rights and I support the legalization of marijuana (which Republicans are starting to get on board with). Beyond that I’m more libertarian on most issues Like I don’t think the government should be involved in peoples relationships why should the government be involved in your marriage I don’t think that the government should be giving you a tax benefit just for slapping a ring out somebody’s finger regardless if it’s gay or straight marriage government should be out of their relationship and out of the marriage there shouldn’t even be a document saying that you’re legally married. Another one is Government subsidies to places like oil companies and the Greene energy companies, I don’t think the government should be subsidizing them. Ultimately if we had a strong Libertarian party I’ll be voting libertarian but in a binary system where we have an option of voting for a Democrat or Republican or throwing away our vote I tend to vote Republican because they line up with my believes more than the Democrat party.

Answer 1

Anonymous

Of course. It wouldn't make any sense to vote for a candidate that you did not support or who doesn't align with your values. Personally, I never felt strongly enough for any candidate to warrant voting at all until this last election. I'm very much against domestic terrorism, white supremacy, crimes committed while in public office, intentional dissemination of misinformation, abuse of power, and violation of constitutional rights. So I had to vote for the democratic party. Those issues were far more important to me than anything else.

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Stoner710

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See personally I see that in joe Biden, I don’t think my views line up completely with the republican party but at the same time I know I cannot vote for Joe Biden, even though I don’t like trump attitude or rhetoric. I was thinking about voting for Jo Jorgensen but like I said we live in a binary system that would be like throwing away my vote
Opinion Owner

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It really is a shame that we don't have a strong third party. Even if you're a hardcore democrat or republican, the presence of a third party would even improve the other parties and force them to take stances that they actually believe in, instead of choosing something simply because it is the opposite of the other. That's the one thing I think most of us can agree on, that the current two-party system we have is a weakness.
Stoner710

1 y
I think that’s true, I can see 2 parties splitting off from the 2 mainstream parties, libertarian and progressive (I think we might see an alt right party pop it’s ugly head because most Republicans and libertarian can’t stand those guys ). Another weakness is our voting system, Our voting system really only supports a 2 party system. A simple solution would be a rank choice voting system. I think everyone who goes to vote under the new system should have to watch a 10-15 minute video the first year we do it, and have every new voter watch the video before they vote, rank choice voting isn’t hard to explain but we do need to understand how it works hence why the video. Once we understand how it works it would be easy to do.

Say you have candidates A, B, C, D say your prefer a candidate A then you vote for A as your first choice, then you look at the other 3 and pick out your second choice, Say it candidate C you would put a 2 by C as your second choice and so on with B and D. If that makes any sense.

Answer 2

Stoner710

See personally I see that in joe Biden, I don’t think my views line up completely with the republican party but at the same time I know I cannot vote for Joe Biden, even though I don’t like trump attitude or rhetoric. I was thinking about voting for Jo Jorgensen but like I said we live in a binary system that would be like throwing away my vote

Answer 3

Opinion Owner

It really is a shame that we don't have a strong third party. Even if you're a hardcore democrat or republican, the presence of a third party would even improve the other parties and force them to take stances that they actually believe in, instead of choosing something simply because it is the opposite of the other. That's the one thing I think most of us can agree on, that the current two-party system we have is a weakness.

Answer 4

Stoner710

I think that’s true, I can see 2 parties splitting off from the 2 mainstream parties, libertarian and progressive (I think we might see an alt right party pop it’s ugly head because most Republicans and libertarian can’t stand those guys ). Another weakness is our voting system, Our voting system really only supports a 2 party system. A simple solution would be a rank choice voting system. I think everyone who goes to vote under the new system should have to watch a 10-15 minute video the first year we do it, and have every new voter watch the video before they vote, rank choice voting isn’t hard to explain but we do need to understand how it works hence why the video. Once we understand how it works it would be easy to do.

Say you have candidates A, B, C, D say your prefer a candidate A then you vote for A as your first choice, then you look at the other 3 and pick out your second choice, Say it candidate C you would put a 2 by C as your second choice and so on with B and D. If that makes any sense.

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Diversity_Hire | 194 opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

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I have been voting since 2004, and in that time I've gone from voting for the lesser of two evils to whoever I think will do the least long-term damage.

You would think those are one in the same, yet somehow the latter is worse.

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Stoner710

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Very true and felt like giving democrats power was the worst of 2 evils I don’t like Trump’s mouth but I like his policies

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Stoner710

Very true and felt like giving democrats power was the worst of 2 evils I don’t like Trump’s mouth but I like his policies

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purplepoppy | 2.4K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Master

It's a three way system in UK but its like a rapist asking you to pick a hole.

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sadMeester

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sadMeester

In a binary political system do you vote for the person that matches up with your beliefs or do you vote for somebody who doesn’t match?

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goaded | 2.4K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_runoff_voting

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OddBeMe | 11.4K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic.

Master

I think people mostly vote for whoever makes them feel better. Personally, i look at their platform and vote based on issues.

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Stoner710

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I think that’s true, Rational people will vote on policy rather than who makes him feel better, I disgree with most of the lefts policy so I vote Republican right now, It could change, I wish there was a strong libertarian party so I could vote libertarian without feeling like I’m throwing away my vote. Like most Republicans don’t support gay marriage and legal weed I differ in that option. I’m socially liberal fiscally libertarian and the role of the federal government libertarian but we’re lumped into Republican because we don’t support AOC or Bernie Sanders ideas. I’m surprised they haven’t kicked Tulsi Gabbard out of their party yet, Nancy Pelosi even though I think she’s a moron I think she’s the only thing that’s stopping the Democratic Party from going completely radical
OddBeMe

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Though, I will say, if a candidate is so highly controversial and you vote for him anyway- you’re tacitly agreeing with his bullshit.

If the Dems elected a guy who said “grab em by the pussy” I wouldn’t vote him, no mater the platform.
Stoner710

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Then by your logic I shouldn’t vote because I don’t agree with what democrats have to say I don’t think that we should have abortion up to nine months I don’t believe that women should be forced to address in front of biological man a. k. a. trans women i’m not going to vote for crack down on religious freedom which is a vote for the Democrat party and I’m not going to vote for socialism.

In the United States we have a binary option to either support trump or you support Biden I cannot support Biden so who the fuck else am I supposed to support or am I just not supposed to vote? n am I supposed to be an idiot and throw away my vote in a third-party
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OddBeMe

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If abortion means that much to you. Me? I care about born Americans who are dying.
Stoner710

1 y
Yes it does because I care about the born and unborn, also it not just abortion I don’t want a huge centralized government you cannot work in the United States the only thing that’s actually keeping us from a Civil War is the fact that states have their own agency. If California started ordering Texas around it would cause more tension which we don’t need right now.

Not to mention I’m not a fan of socialism it gets people killed, which joe Biden is a socialist not as bad as Bernie Sanders. I don’t support illegal immigrants coming across the board (don’t mind legal immigrants there fine they went through the legal process). Which joe Biden is doing, I don’t want them do add new states so Republican never win again, I don’t want them to Pack the Supreme Court like Chuck Schumer was talking about last night, Nor do I want them to kill the filibuster these are all very bad ideas they will actually drive the country to destruction.

The reality is Democrats and Republicans live in two different worlds we want to different countries and at this point it’s only the federal system that’s holding us together if we have more centralized government like Joe Biden wants that will end the country
OddBeMe

1 y
Then why give more rights to “unborn” than the born?
Stoner710

1 y
I don’t give them more rights I give them the same right, if you have a right to life then you have the right to be born. If the unborn do not have the right to life then a born person doesn’t have the right to life there for I have the right to kill you because it benefits me. Which is what women do when they kill there children before birth, they kill there child so they don’t have to ruin there bodies or there jobs or lives that’s why your nit suppose to have sex until marriage so your life isn’t destroyed
OddBeMe

1 y
You’re giving the unborn rights over other human’s body. No one has that right.
Stoner710

11 mo
Again I am not giving them more rights they don’t have the right to kill there mother the mother doesn’t have the right to kill them. Tell me why are tell me how this works Bacteria is life on Mars, but a heartbeat isn't life on Earth
OddBeMe

11 mo
Bacteria, heartbeats, fetus, all is life. But you're missing the point. Govt should only take away rights for good reason. A fetus the size of a bean isn’t a good enough reason. Anti-abolitionists only think so because of their religion.
OddBeMe

11 mo
*Abortionists.

Freudian slip
Stoner710

11 mo
You gotta remember I’m not religious, I haven’t been to church since I was 16 so 11 years.

The good reason is your ending someone’s life who hadn’t had a chance to live, how is that hard to understand, you wouldn’t take a pregnant dog and kill the unborn puppies and say they were parasites (a lot of pro death side call unborn babies parasites). I don’t have the right to kill you, you don’t have the right to kill me, a child doesn’t have the right to kill his mother and the mother doesn’t have the right to kill there child, Not yet being born is a simple part of human development if you have the right to kill someone in the younger stage of human development why not in an older stage why not kill so, some during the elderly stage of human development why not kill your 50 year old mom or dad it’s the same logic to me, either you have the right to kill anyone at any stage or you don’t have the right to kill someone at any stage even pre birth.

Tell me what rights am I giving to an unborn human that I’m not giving to a born human?
OddBeMe

11 mo
“A life who hadn’t had a chance to live”... think about your own words there...
OddBeMe

11 mo
One more: should a parent be legally forced to donate an organ to their child?
Stoner710

11 mo
Fair enough it’s a life at conception so your murdering a life before it’s born, there for the person getting the abortion and the abortion isn’t should be executed for first degree murder.

Also if forcing parents to give there kid there kidney prevents unborn life form dying then so be it they can live without the kidney the baby can’t live without the womb.

Answer 11

Stoner710

I think that’s true, Rational people will vote on policy rather than who makes him feel better, I disgree with most of the lefts policy so I vote Republican right now, It could change, I wish there was a strong libertarian party so I could vote libertarian without feeling like I’m throwing away my vote. Like most Republicans don’t support gay marriage and legal weed I differ in that option. I’m socially liberal fiscally libertarian and the role of the federal government libertarian but we’re lumped into Republican because we don’t support AOC or Bernie Sanders ideas. I’m surprised they haven’t kicked Tulsi Gabbard out of their party yet, Nancy Pelosi even though I think she’s a moron I think she’s the only thing that’s stopping the Democratic Party from going completely radical

Answer 12

OddBeMe

Though, I will say, if a candidate is so highly controversial and you vote for him anyway- you’re tacitly agreeing with his bullshit.

If the Dems elected a guy who said “grab em by the pussy” I wouldn’t vote him, no mater the platform.

Answer 13

Stoner710

Then by your logic I shouldn’t vote because I don’t agree with what democrats have to say I don’t think that we should have abortion up to nine months I don’t believe that women should be forced to address in front of biological man a. k. a. trans women i’m not going to vote for crack down on religious freedom which is a vote for the Democrat party and I’m not going to vote for socialism.

In the United States we have a binary option to either support trump or you support Biden I cannot support Biden so who the fuck else am I supposed to support or am I just not supposed to vote? n am I supposed to be an idiot and throw away my vote in a third-party

Answer 14

OddBeMe

If abortion means that much to you. Me? I care about born Americans who are dying.

Answer 15

Stoner710

Yes it does because I care about the born and unborn, also it not just abortion I don’t want a huge centralized government you cannot work in the United States the only thing that’s actually keeping us from a Civil War is the fact that states have their own agency. If California started ordering Texas around it would cause more tension which we don’t need right now.

Not to mention I’m not a fan of socialism it gets people killed, which joe Biden is a socialist not as bad as Bernie Sanders. I don’t support illegal immigrants coming across the board (don’t mind legal immigrants there fine they went through the legal process). Which joe Biden is doing, I don’t want them do add new states so Republican never win again, I don’t want them to Pack the Supreme Court like Chuck Schumer was talking about last night, Nor do I want them to kill the filibuster these are all very bad ideas they will actually drive the country to destruction.

The reality is Democrats and Republicans live in two different worlds we want to different countries and at this point it’s only the federal system that’s holding us together if we have more centralized government like Joe Biden wants that will end the country

Answer 16

OddBeMe

Then why give more rights to “unborn” than the born?

Answer 17

Stoner710

I don’t give them more rights I give them the same right, if you have a right to life then you have the right to be born. If the unborn do not have the right to life then a born person doesn’t have the right to life there for I have the right to kill you because it benefits me. Which is what women do when they kill there children before birth, they kill there child so they don’t have to ruin there bodies or there jobs or lives that’s why your nit suppose to have sex until marriage so your life isn’t destroyed

Answer 18

OddBeMe

You’re giving the unborn rights over other human’s body. No one has that right.

Answer 19

Stoner710

Again I am not giving them more rights they don’t have the right to kill there mother the mother doesn’t have the right to kill them. Tell me why are tell me how this works Bacteria is life on Mars, but a heartbeat isn't life on Earth

Answer 20

OddBeMe

Bacteria, heartbeats, fetus, all is life. But you're missing the point. Govt should only take away rights for good reason. A fetus the size of a bean isn’t a good enough reason. Anti-abolitionists only think so because of their religion.

Answer 21

OddBeMe

*Abortionists.

Freudian slip

Answer 22

Stoner710

You gotta remember I’m not religious, I haven’t been to church since I was 16 so 11 years.

The good reason is your ending someone’s life who hadn’t had a chance to live, how is that hard to understand, you wouldn’t take a pregnant dog and kill the unborn puppies and say they were parasites (a lot of pro death side call unborn babies parasites). I don’t have the right to kill you, you don’t have the right to kill me, a child doesn’t have the right to kill his mother and the mother doesn’t have the right to kill there child, Not yet being born is a simple part of human development if you have the right to kill someone in the younger stage of human development why not in an older stage why not kill so, some during the elderly stage of human development why not kill your 50 year old mom or dad it’s the same logic to me, either you have the right to kill anyone at any stage or you don’t have the right to kill someone at any stage even pre birth.

Tell me what rights am I giving to an unborn human that I’m not giving to a born human?

Answer 23

OddBeMe

“A life who hadn’t had a chance to live”... think about your own words there...

Answer 24

OddBeMe

One more: should a parent be legally forced to donate an organ to their child?

Answer 25

Stoner710

Fair enough it’s a life at conception so your murdering a life before it’s born, there for the person getting the abortion and the abortion isn’t should be executed for first degree murder.

Also if forcing parents to give there kid there kidney prevents unborn life form dying then so be it they can live without the kidney the baby can’t live without the womb.

In a binary political system do you vote for the person that matches up with your beliefs or do you vote for somebody who doesn’t match?

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