Chomsky Gives 8 Reasons To Not Vote Third Party In 2016

found online by Raymond

 
From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:

Noam Chomsky is one of my heroes. I believe he is the leading voice in the United States for left-wing ideology. One might think that he would urge his followers to vote for the Green Party in the presidential election (since that is the farthest left of any of the political parties on enough ballots to have a theoretical chance of getting 270 electoral votes), but that is not what he’s saying. He thinks it would be a mistake for American leftists to vote for a third party this year — and he lists 8 reasons why that is true:

1) Voting should not be viewed as a form of personal self-expression or moral judgement directed in retaliation towards major party candidates who fail to reflect our values, or of a corrupt system designed to limit choices to those acceptable to corporate elites.

2) The exclusive consequence of the act of voting in 2016 will be (if in a contested “swing state”) to marginally increase or decrease the chance of one of the major party candidates winning.

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