Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[G.Irish]

Here's the thing, voting 'third party' is a waste because of our first past the post voting system.  Now if the Democratic party or GOP falls apart they may get replaced by the Libertarian party but you're still going to have a duopoly.  If people really want the Libertarian (or Green, or whatever) party to win they need to:

*Push for ranked choice voting
*Get their party elected at the state and local level
*Build a national base of support (volunteer, donate, etc.)

If the only thing libertarians or anyone else does is show up every 4 years to make a protest vote against the status quo, the result is going to be the same every time.

Furthermore, people seem to think that if we had 3 or 4 parties competing in Congress and state legislatures that somehow things would be better.  Other countries have multi-party legislatures and they still have to deal with scandals, extremism, and intransigence.  It's not a magic bullet.