Is now an appropriate time to mention that write-ins probably cost Roy Moore the election?
— Green Party US □ (@GreenPartyUS) December 13, 2017
Because you can't support voters having alternate choices only some of the time. pic.twitter.com/5qXTtTjpKW
No, wait. Before giving you the bullets, I guess there is a two-part main point I'd like to make, which the bullets kind of undergird:
- This election demonstrates why the United States as a nation needs third parties—or, at the very least, reforms to our political and media structures to make independent candidacies more viable.
- This election hammered home for me how, in a two-dominant-party system such as ours, voting for a candidate based on that candidate's chances of winning perpetuates the duopoly.