Because Kaepernick’s protests aren’t about slavery.

They did the ground work. Johnson was on every ballot. That’s no easy feat, evident by the fact that it’s happened only a couple times for third parties in the entire history of the United States.

Who knows? What their platform is, how appealing it is to Americans, what kind of candidates they’ve fielded, and how they’ve since been managed is another topic entirely. The point is that they gained instant success with literally a single candidate. This opened up ballot access (which is a very underrated feat),…

There were lots and lots and lots of people who were correct about Iraq, even with Bush’s lies. Hillary was wrong. Period. Given her stances on Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq (again), Iran, and Russia, just to name a few, there’s no reason to believe she wouldn’t be wrong again. Her proposed flippant misuse of the military…

The one that Hillary voted for?

Why? Look at what Perot did for the Reform Party. That was not built at the local level, that was made popular by all the media coverage associated with his campaign.

I don’t think there’s any reason to add a third party, but historically, third “party” movements have influenced the major parties significantly. Look at the socialist movement in the early 1900's and the civil rights movement in the 50's (before becoming popularized a decade later) as examples of this. Even Perot’s…

Just to correct your assumption that the libertarians did not achieve their goals -- the 5% thing is only for matching funds. They gained automatic ballot access in 20-30 states based on the turnout, which is unprecedented for them and a huge victory. You could argue that it won’t matter, but to claim that they didn’t…

One alternative viewpoint is that people who supported the two liberal candidates did so because they rejected the two establishment conservative candidates. For example, I find Hillary’s support (and probably continuation) of Obama’s deportation policies to be abhorrent; I think her voting record and activities as…

Fuck Hillary Clinton for stealing Gary Johnson’s votes. If she had just endorsed him, he might have had a chance to beat Trump.