Originally Posted by Chula Vista

First off, stop with the condescension for just this once. I understand just perfectly. Based on Florida, Johnson got 4 out of 5 third party votes. So he was a much more recognizable candidate. And again, most people fed up with the right and left are voting third party not on actual political platforms (seeing as a third party candidate hasn't a snowballs chance in hell of winning) but just to buck the system.

Call it rebel without a clue.

So, you hate the right and the left and want to make a statement (not elect a president) so you vote for the third party candidate who will make the most dissenting noise, even though it's useless noise.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.