Alright. I DO remember you from an audio debate you had with somebody a couple years ago.
We've got nothing to debate. I said what I said.
You said: "You won't have a viable third-party if voters never show a willingness to step away from the two-party system."
We're not in disagreement on that point. Where we disagree is on your pushing so hard towards encouraging people not to vote in THIS election.
The simple act of "sitting out the vote" in the presidential election of 2020 will not break the stronghold of the two-party system. What it will do is hand Trump another four years. We have been left many times to choose the lesser of two evils. Of course, that's not a good feeling.
However in 2020, there is a worm that's taken over the system- not a virus. Trump is unlike any other American president before him in his level of corruption, defiance of separation of powers, brazen commitment of treason, unleashing of federal troops onto the populace and shredding of the Constitution. He is a fascist dictator in every sense of the words who doesn't intend on leaving office even if he lost the election and is willing to openly employ any means to subvert the entire electoral process to maintain and consolidate power by illegal means. All the while, he is running on an amped up white power agenda.
Joe Biden is not the second coming of Jesus Christ. He's not impressive at all. What he is is, he's not Trump. At the bare minimum, he has governing experience, he was not born with silver spoon in his mouth, he has not been coddled all his life and is not on the level of sociopathy as this maniac in the White House. Not impressive, but not Trump. He is moldable, he could be worked with, Trump cannot. He's (barely) functionally insane. A man is running the country that suggested injecting bleach into people's veins to kill COVID. He's dangerous and has to go simple as that.
So, I'm not interested in debating about Barack Obama or anyone else. Barack can't be president anymore. He's irrelevant to the discussion of the 2020 presidential election.
To set the stage for a multiparty system is something that would take planning.
John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.” And that’s exactly what has come to pass.
www.theatlantic.com
Sitting out this crucial election that will determine whether or not there actually will continue to exist a democracy anymore is foolish and suicidal. If you want to talk strategies towards attaining multi-party elections subsequent to 2020, I'm in. Sitting out the election? That's a vote lost to Trump.