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Voting Third Party Isn’t the Answer. Join the Party.
In four months, people will be heading to the polls again in what will be one of the most, if not the most, consequential midterm election in recent history.
On the ballot is nothing short of democracy itself.
Women’s reproductive freedoms, gun legislation, education, criminal justice reform, the environment, the economy, privacy, foreign policy, immigration, taxes, healthcare, civil rights, the Supreme Court, Social Security, Medicare, domestic terrorism, federal courts, the rule of law, the Ukraine war, and even voting itself, are all up for grabs if republicans regain control of the House of Representatives and/or the Senate.
The election’s outcome will determine the 2024 presidential election.
Every election cycle there bubbles to the surface complaints about our two-party system.
Many argue both the Democratic and republican parties are too irredeemably corrupt to expect any changes.
They claim both parties “are the same;” voting for either is a “lesser of two evils.” Therefore, “voting for a third party” is the only logical “solution.”
According to the Mueller Report, these are talking points that came out of the Russian-linked Internet Research Agency troll farm that sowed discord during the 2016…
