Repeat after me, POLITICIANS DO NOT RUN GOVERNMENTS.
REPEAT AFTER ME. Voters votes don't matter. What does matters is WHO counts the votes.
You've stated it, yourself, that you have voted for third party candidates since 1976. And yet here you are, daily, seemingly to be constantantly buddy buddy and aligning yourself with the prominent leftists here at HR.
On the other hand, one might assume that it's a head game you're playing here with everyone. If that's what it is, that's on you to justify within your own mind. And you have to live with that.
What I don't like reading here at HR is when members here accuse each other of being liars. The cast of characters who post here at PT is small and growing smaller every day simply because we have totally failed at being open minded with each other and their opinions.
Point being: There’s a lot of readers, long time members of HR, who still read, and avoid posting because they KNOW that it's useless to argue their points of view.
And that's just it! We continue to simply disrepect each other here daily, arguing, back and forth with each other thinking that "our opinions" are the only opinions that matter and are of consequence to defend our opinions. And that's OK, short of calling out others as liars.
There are very few who regularly post at PT, politically, or fun wise threads. It'd be a damn shame watching ya'll annihilate each other in attempts to best each other over the stupidity and arrogance of Washington DC politicians.
Ya'll have a tendency to believe that those politicians care about you.
They don't.