It's funny, I've been discussing this whole two party system thing for a while now and people who complain about it are goofy is my book and I'll explain why.
Oh, first off, I'm un. Sup people!
Now, if you honestly look at the "other" parties you will only find maybe 3 differences. But let's keep it straight up. The Libertarian and Constitution Parties are extremist groups of the current Republican platform. The Green Party is an extremist group of the current Democratic platform. So at the end of the day you can "feel better" by voting for one of these other parties but at the end of the day you're voting for the same group with a different uniform on. The Libertarians ran DAVID KOCH (you know David Koch, industrial billionaire demon that's basically funding Mitt Romney and funded and started in most ways the Tea Party) as their VP candidate in 1980, if you look at the Libertarian platform it's for the same shyt as the Republicans overall with minor tweaks but it's still corporation-centric. Freaking Gary Johnson was running for the Republican Presidential nod then jumped ship to the Libertarians when he didn't win. It's a pupper show, so if you would vote for Libertarians you might as well vote for Mitt Romney. Same shyt, different uni.
The Green Party is basically the hippie brother/sister of the Democrat Party. They both favor gender equality, social justice, equal opportunity, ecological soundness, and personal/global responsibility overall. It's just that the Green Party is willing to openly hug a tree and form a flower circle. Not that these are bad things but they are contrary to the behavior (not beliefs in my book) of most people. So they sit on the fringe, espousing a ton of things that I've heard on the Democrats platform but closing their statements with stances on mother earth as well.
And anyone who runs on the Green ticket or the Libertarian ticket is basically screaming "I don't play the game well enough to hack it in the major parties to get elected and make some real change!"
So while we all have the right to vote as our consciences see fit I'll tell you to check yourself on this "I might as well not vote" shyt. Wanna know what happened the last time I said that to myself. George W. Bush got elected and we started the obvious descent into hell. I'm not saying that President Barack Obama is superior because he's failed me on key things that I hoped he would do but he's WAY better than the alternative. So in my book every non-vote is a vote for Mitt Romney, corporate america and big banks continuing to crush us and a degradation of life for all working class people.
Think about what you give up in not voting. I gave it up once and got Bush and two years of unemployment thanks to the financial collapse that he set up with his Wall St. first economics (Mitt's platform). Fuck that. Not again.
