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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (4649)	1/4/2017 12:07:45 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356895

You are correct. The single issue voter is definitely an issue. I don't even consider the 3rd parties (so I wasn't including them in my thinking)- because they represent a thrown away vote- that's why so few people use them. I agree with you about the single issue voter.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (4649)	1/4/2017 12:37:31 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Recommended By Steve Lokness Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356895

Most people who vote for a major party candidate are considering the n% ideas they agree with and feel bound to support, as the reason for supporting that candidate, while they have to dismiss the other n% of ideas they don't support as less critical to meaningless. If you have made any effort to self examine your life, you have been able to set certain precepts that you value as principles to live by. You are only free when you are able to act in accordance with tenets you have identified within yourself as having value. Any action you perform that is in contradiction to your principles, diminishes your sense of self-worth and autonomy in the world. Voting your conscience in this regard (possibly third party) is not a throw away vote except in the game of major party red vs blue, which not everyone plays. The unfortunate consequence for some, less bound by principle, is that once they cast their vote to a party, they treat all the party's issues as a categorical imperative.