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Even worse that the schizophrenic nature of the American voter’s desires is his childish demand that everything “get done” now and his belief that it is only those bums on Capitol Hill who are stopping stuff from “getting done.” American voters are “tired of ideology” and just want to see some wizard go to Washington and solve…
Throwing away your vote on a message no one will hear, and which will change no outcome, is sometimes presented as ‘voting your conscience’, but that’s got it exactly backwards; your conscience is what keeps you from doing things that feel good to you but hurt other people. Citizens who vote for third-party candidates, write-in candidates, or nobody aren’t voting their conscience, they are voting their ego, unable to accept that a system they find personally disheartening actually applies to them.