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on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:07PM
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from the interesting-but-not-surprising dept.
Three of the four major candidates for United States president have responded to America's Top 20 Presidential Science, Engineering, Technology, Health and Environmental Questions. The nonprofit advocacy group ScienceDebate.org has posted their responses online. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Jill Stein had all responded as of press time, and the group was awaiting responses from Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.
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U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:40PM
Most voters can only think in the short-term, so all they seem to be willing to do is vote for 'the lesser of two evils'. But decades and centuries of a corrupt duopoly will do far more harm than several 'greater evils' getting into power, and that is why most of our effort must be focused on changing our voting system, and the best way to do this appears to be to terrify the two parties by using the perception of the spoiler effect as a weapon. Unless someone thinks that mindlessly voting for the 'lesser evil' in every election will somehow be more likely to motivate The One Party into giving up its monopoly on power, but I would be very interested in how that would happen.
But terrified and irrational people (most voters) will probably not do this in the foreseeable future, as they are too focused on what is happening directly in front of them.