November 8th will be the culmination of a year long campaign by various politicians and their surrogates to convince people to vote for their candidates, and as an American citizen you can vote for anyone you want- at least that’s the way it’s supposed to work.

This election season has been marred by the admission of many that it’s another decision between the lesser of two evils. People complain and they wish: IF ONLY there was another option, or I don’t know dozens of other options?

I have already lost half my audience with that one, “A vote for third party is a vote for Trump/Hillary” rings through the comment section with a resounding “meh”.

A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for progressives, a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for libertarians, and a vote for Vermin Supreme is a vote for free ponies. Your vote goes EXACTLY to who you want it to go to, that’s how it works. This is the ONE time that you are supposed to have the same amount of power as even the most rich and powerful in the country- so why are some so eager to throw it away at a candidate that doesn’t represent them?

You think it’s a coincidence that both Red and Blue agree 100% that third party voting is a waste of a vote? They disagree on everything from whether Russia should continue not being a parking lot all the way to who is allowed to go to the bathroom where, and you don’t think it’s strange that they just decided to hold hands and block third parties out of some shared principal? Well that would be a trick question, because although it may not be a principal- keeping power consolidated between two major parties is definitely one of the only things they can agree on.

America is based around capitalism, there is a free market and with fierce competition the strong thrive and the weak collapse. This system works so well that we have laws in place to prevent the exclusion of competition- monopolies are illegal in America, as long as they aren’t political monopolies. America is faced with the lesser of two evils EVERY four years because there is zero competition in our system, Red and Blue can field ANYONE they choose because there isn’t anywhere else viable the voter can go…and they intend to keep it that way.

If Americans could only get a breather from the beating over the head they are receiving from the media, about how you only have two viable choices- then MAYBE those choices start to become viable. Maybe, just maybe Americans can switch from their keyhole sized outlook on American politics to a window- then maybe we get some competition into the system, and Red and Blue have to switch from fielding some evils to a few goods.

So as election day swiftly approaches, and you see more and more smears against third parties remember the real reason the DNC and the RNC agree on only this one subject. They don’t want competition, they want to remain the political equivalent to Time Warner cable: ya they give you service, but it’s shitty and it’s slow, and there is no other option.