• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Voting for minor parties in the US isn’t a vote taken from fascists in a winner takes it all system.

    It only has symbolic power and can prevent an absolute majority

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      14 hours ago

      Oh right… I forgot about that, must have had an actual democratic system in mind :/

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        9 hours ago

        It’s pretty much the same in a parliamentary election system with an electoral threshold.

        If the party you vote for can’t clear that threshold, you might as well not vote at all.

        I guess your vote still has a slight impact, as it makes it harder for other parties that hover around the electoral threshold to get in. But I doubt that’s the impact you are going for.