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      10 days ago

      Which third party? There’s always more than one, so now the vote is even weaker. And realize that you just also blamed the non-voters. Pointing fingers is very much a keyboard warrior, and it’s what’s always done after a loss caused by third party spoiling. Go ahead, say you didn’t, but the numbers historically show in close races where a third party vote would have settled had they not thought “this time, it’s different”.

      To think that a third party could ever win a national election in a Republican/Democrat owned system is fantasy land. At best you do exactly what resulted in MAGA, you splinter the group from within and force the moderate part to follow the radical. That means not playing by rules though, so Democrats have division within but no clear radical that is forcing changes.

      As for causes of “this”, meaning the current administration, there’s so much more long term decline damage and not just votes that caused this. Things were not fine before. More fantasy.