<div dir="auto">In Australia I tend to vote Greens, which will never run parliament/make Prime Minister due to its lack of members, but because I live in a regional town. We have the Great Barrier Reef to the east, the protected Daintree Rainforest north, and rainforest everywhere else around us, and the local council does not give any fucks about the endangered wildlife that live in our areas. So I vote Greens purely so there is some fight in councils and parliament against doing anything that is going to drive our endangered animals towards extinction. Without them, our politicians would go unchecked and everything would die or be destroyed.<div dir="auto">*Greens being our hippies that became politicians.</div><div dir="auto">Your Democrat/Republican parties would be closest related to our Labour/Liberal parties.</div><div dir="auto">2 party systems suck.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu., Jul. 30, 2020, 07:16 Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat, <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 1:33 PM John Clark wrote:<br>
>> I think this stuff about how it's OK to throw away your vote<br>
>> if you're in certain states is nuts for two reasons:<br>
>> [...]<br>
>> 2) [...] it's virtually certain Trump will claim the election was<br>
>> fake, and he is never going to relinquish power without a fight.<br>
>> [....] the larger the popular vote runs against him the less moral<br>
>> authority he will have, [...]<br>
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On 2020-7-29 13:41, Adrian Tymes wrote: [...]<br>
> #2 is a fair point, though: the absolute popular vote may count,<br>
> even from "safe" states.<br>
<br>
Seems to me that a vote for a minor party (presumably more sincere than <br>
tactical) counts at least as much as a vote for the Donkey in measuring <br>
Trump's unpopularity.<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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