Ok, I am starting to think you're not interested in dialog since you're engaging in meta-discourse only.
Meta dialog response: Turning multiple paragraphs into 6-8 word quips with loaded wording isn't paraphrasing in any honest way that can be distinguished from caricature.
Main dialog response: As to the parties and platforms, the very point of my original post was to point out that if they break 15% in the polls, you'll have a new voice in the debates, and a 5% popular vote will give them advance federal election funding, forcing the two parties to address issues from more than a "not the other team" perspective. I.e., "changing the election landscape." You mock the Libertarians, who, I think we all know, won't win anyway, but whose gain of just 5% of the electorate in this cycle could start the transformation of the US political arena into a true multiparty system. I ask what you like of the other big parties. If the answer is "not much, really" and that you prefer (say) the Green party or some other small-in-elections party, well, my very point is this election could crack the door. You may not like the party that has the chance to crack open that door, but once it's open, it'll provide a way for may others to get heard. And isn't that what we need?
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Date: 2016-07-10 11:23 pm (UTC)Meta dialog response: Turning multiple paragraphs into 6-8 word quips with loaded wording isn't paraphrasing in any honest way that can be distinguished from caricature.
Main dialog response: As to the parties and platforms, the very point of my original post was to point out that if they break 15% in the polls, you'll have a new voice in the debates, and a 5% popular vote will give them advance federal election funding, forcing the two parties to address issues from more than a "not the other team" perspective. I.e., "changing the election landscape." You mock the Libertarians, who, I think we all know, won't win anyway, but whose gain of just 5% of the electorate in this cycle could start the transformation of the US political arena into a true multiparty system. I ask what you like of the other big parties. If the answer is "not much, really" and that you prefer (say) the Green party or some other small-in-elections party, well, my very point is this election could crack the door. You may not like the party that has the chance to crack open that door, but once it's open, it'll provide a way for may others to get heard. And isn't that what we need?