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Yeah...that's what I said in the post you quoted. I conflated the FBI report and the new DNI report. The point stands, though. Supporting 3rd party makes you a hostile actor against our nation.
That's nonsense, and that's not what the report said.
BS, the more People that are willing to put Party behind Nation and vote for a third Party are doing their part to keep the Big Two in check. Think about it, if that 48% that did not vote had all voted for Johnson, he would have won in a landslide. Believe me the leaders of the Big Two do recognize that they need to do better at getting voters to support them, to not do so is doing so at their own peril.
Hey...don't tell me. Tell the DNI. That is their assessment.
Um, no. They said that RT (you know, RUSSIA) is pumping up our third parties in a way that advances the narrative of American democracy as a sham. Not that voting third party makes one a rogue agent.
i definitely support making it easier for other parties to participate. of course, i also fantasize about banning political parties entirely. run on your ideas, not on your team / political tribe.
Um, no. They say that Russia is a hostile nation that is trying to undermine our democracy and one of the examples they gave was Russia giving a platform to 3rd party candidates and said the two party system didn't represent a large chunk of the population. If that's going to be used as an example then anyone else doing it should be considered a hostile actor as well.
Oh...and that's not taking into account that there is nothing wrong with them getting 3rd party candidates time, and I applaud them for it, because our media is the one that undermines the democratic process by purposefully ignoring 3rd party candidates, or any anti-establishment types like Ron Paul, for example.
As far as the second point of the two party system not representing a large portion of the population...well...no ****!?!? But even their report said it was 1/3 but almost half the population is independent, so if anything RT low-balled it.
In other words, yes, they are characterizing non-establishment candidates as a hostile act.
If you insist.
It's in their own words that factual information is bad and supplying a platform to fulfill an extremely important need are the actions of a hostile actor. It's literally in their report.
So it's not so much as me insisting but that's is what it is.
Dude. The report is clearly stating that RT is giving the third parties more airtime (which they deserve, by the way) in an attempt to discredit American democracy. As in, creating a narrative. As in, RT is not doing this out of the goodness of their kind little Russian hearts, they're doing it as propaganda. So that means, by extension, that anyone who supports third party candidates is discrediting American democracy? No, that's ****ing retarded.
I have no doubt that the current political parties enjoy their little duopoly; however, you're trying to make people who support third parties (which includes myself, mind you -- registered Green, here, mostly as protest but still) into some marginalized victims of an eebul gubmint.
Would you ever leave the 2 party system and vote for a 3rd party candidate?
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