There’s a sort of hypocrisy when people choose a third party — if they choose one at all. On the one hand some people pick a party because of a singular issue, and on the other hand some pick one because it is exactly what they’re interested in. There seems to be almost no one in between.

I say hypocrisy because with the first group they would ally with the Libertarians, for example, because they want to legalize drugs, yet wouldn’t ally with Republicans, despite many parts of the platform being similar – usually if they even were aware of the far right, and very relaxed economic beliefs of the Libertarian Party, they would probably disagree with it all.  It seems to be a situation where people say, “well, I believe that people should be able to do what they want as long as they don’t hurt others.”

This concept in libertarianism comes with a price, that is the price of laissez-faire economics and absolutely no social welfare system to speak of, no public schools, no public roads, and so forth. Nothing else matters so long as their singular issue is supported.

As per the other group (or as I like to call the “never satisfied” group), they seem to be centered around the idea that if a third party is worth joining, then it must completely conform to their political beliefs. This is extremely hypocritical because many times they will support, and vote for, candidates and parties such as the Democrats and Republicans which they share even less in common with than a third party. For example, they would hold off joining the Green Party because they disagree with 20% of the platform, but instead would vote a Democrat into public office, even if they disagree with 80% of that party’s platform.

This kind of behavior doesn’t really surprise me. I get a lot of people telling me that I can’t change anything. As if some how I want to undertake some kind of world revolution. In the end, it doesn’t matter if I or anyone else can change anything, it matters that we’re doing something other than copping out for a Republicrat and claiming that we’re directing change.