There are better ways to stop third-party presidential voting-

[KTM]

108. This is an intentional distortion of what is being said.

I think you know that.

In our current system, there are voters on both sides who feel the two mainstream parties dont fully (or even mostly) articulate their views. There are those who, regardless of what you think of their candidates and beliefs, prefer the Green party, the Libertarian party, or one of the many alternate parties in our country's history.

They are told not to vote for their preferred candidates because those candidates have no chance of winning, and thus they are throw-away/spolier votes. They can either vote for a losing candidate or accept that they must vote for someone who only partially represents their beliefs. They are "left out in the cold by the status quo." All of them, left or right.

The term "status quo" does not inherently refer to the policies of our Democratic candidates in the previous election. It refers to the dominant political architecture in our country, in which voters on the Left and the Right have to accept candidates who have tempered their views towards the center.

YOU decided that it could only apply to a specific candidate/period/election. Ken tried to clarify by saying he was NOT speaking of HRC/BS, and you distorted that clarification 180 degrees from what he meant.

YOU pulled this stuff from thin air - it wasnt the other way around.