Honestly that’s how I expected to be with my daughter, I know it’s not the most mature sentiment but it’s the truth. But my daughter and I have always been so close and I’ve always been the one she primarily talks to about, well, everything, so I just refused to let something like that set a precedent that there were…

Thanks, though I kind of see their point actually. I have a friend in from out of town and my wife and I are taking her out to eat at a restaurant she likes, but which always leaves me with heartburn, so I’m going to light the dumpster on fire and eat from it. Since I’ll be uncomfortable anyway, is there really a…

I didn’t realize you’d been to one of my dinner parties. Alcohol isn’t healthy anyway, so enjoy this tumbler of paint thinner.

It feels intentionally obtuse. I tried to approach it like it wasn’t but I don’t see another answer.

The only way you can say the two lead to the same place is if you don’t care about the rights of Muslims, Women, the LGBT community (I could go on) or about Hispanic families being torn apart.

I didn’t say anything about being obligated to support a candidate, I think if you care about people’s rights that you are obliged to stop the Republican Party from taking the White House.

That’s pedantic; helping one candidate get more votes than the other is a way of stopping them from winning. You are now arguing that you cannot add, because arithmetic tells you that your vote plus other votes is hopefully more than the other side gets and you win (obviously more complex with electoral college, but…

You do not “actively” support them at all, speaking of opposites. “Actively” would, on election day, mean acting, or in this case voting, against them.

You do by default, as has been pointed out ad infinitum. The way to prevent us from going in that direction is by making sure his only true opposition gets more votes.

Seriously? Obviously that is true, but you know that isn’t what I mean. No one in a third party has a chance, not a chance. Not a little one. None. On election day, if you are in a state that is up for grabs (and really it’s important everywhere) you have two options who actually have a shot, one from each major…

Voting third party in a presidential election

Your complaint seems to be with candidate choice and platform, so it sounds like you are.

That is ridiculous and I’m pretty sure you know it, if not then you really don’t understand the American system. There is a difference between an option that is technically available but accomplishes nothing and realistic options.

Except it’s a terrible way to try and affect change within your party, because you waited until they have a platform and a nominee. The time to have the effect you want is before then.

No, they’re both evil though. That’s why doctors tell you if you plan on drinking diet soda just go ahead and drink bleach too, since diet soda isn’t all that healthy for you either. Bad is bad right?

But there are only two choices, so that’s not true at all.

Voting isn’t the only way to make your point, in some ways it’s a lousy one since no one knows about your little personal protest, and people who are only politically involved on election day are part of the problem. Be involved in your local or state party, even the national. Work for/with groups that have influence,…

Yes I know, I’ve never missed an election. That’s an awful way to try to get represented. because you no longer influence who is a candidate. The time to do that is between election cycles

Neither is using election day to make that point. Presidential electionso only happen every four years, there is time then to make the change you want, on election day you can’t be idealistic

I never said you owe the party. You owe it to any women you care about to protect their rights. You owe it to anyone LGBT that you care about to protect their rights. And so on with Muslims, and really any group whose rights require protection, because republicans are running on going after them