The Different Drummer

…And The Use Of Protest Votes

Third-party voters were blamed for indirectly helping Trump win his election in 2016. This year, some took a more active role.

“Opposing someone you dislike is emotionally so much more satisfying than picking the lesser of two evils, but the end result may not be so satisfying. Welcome to politics.”

– electoral-vote.com, 11/18/24

When the Democratic party rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders during the 2016 election cycle, they fatally damaged their relationship with many of his supporters. While Donald Trump pretends to be a populist (ask any of the people he has cheated by refusing to pay his bills how pro-worker he is), Bernie gave an actual voice to the victims of the corporatists who control the Democratic and Republican parties. By silencing this voice, the Democratic Party confirmed the belief by many that neither major political party cared about the issues that were important to them. The results were catastrophic.

In the 2016 Presidential Election, 6,464,094 people voted for someone other than the two major party…