Political parties A & B, why not option "C" instead?

I will be voting all Libertarian as I am not going to waste my vote by voting for someone I don't think will lead this country the way I think it needs to be led. Its time for the Flag of Liberty to be raised in this nation once more and allow. The Constitution to sit at the top not the Bible or some socialist anti-United States agenda take over which is what both the major parties support they are for a strong all pervasive Federal Government. They both hate the American Values and its time to kick them out of our Government! No more Republicans No More Democrats let the C Parties come in. Hanity or Beck said the only time you waste your vote is when you vote for someone because you think they are the lessor of two evils. That is what is killing our nation more than Obama or Bush could ever do. That thinking. THE WHOLE POINT OF VOTING IS LETTING YOUR VOICE BE HEARD NOT TO VOTE FOR THE LESSOR OF THE TWO EVILS I MEAN REALLY DON'T FALL INTO THE TRAP OF THE REPS OR DEMS THEY ARE TRICKING YOU INTO THIS THINKING AS IT WILL KEEP THEM IN POWER!!! thats all i got to say vote for who you think will represent you the best if its a Dem, Republican, Green Party, Libertarian or some other party vote even if you think they won't win your voice will still be heard.

We're all being scammed, in my opinion. In the way I live my life, I describe myself more as a loose, new-age Republican with fiscal conservative values and a strong streak of common sense. In the way I vote, I don't want to see EITHER PARTY in office anymore. It's enough of this junk. The big two keep us at each other's throats and trade off power, making the country progressively worse--and the government exponentially larger!--each time they get in. Enough of us buy it, too. Especially on myLot, there's enough my-side-rules partisanship in here to give Chris Matthews a headache. In my opinion, one party is "worse" than the other. But that's solely due to many of the principles I disagree with and not necessarily their being any more inept or any more corrupt than the other. I would love it if parties were done away with. I'd like to see candidates tell us who they are - what their platform is. Many rely on that letter and its weight to automatically dismiss anything that isn't one of the big two. I've heard of a few other parties (in the context that I've heard 'new' about them), like Constitutional, Libertarian, Green, the new Tea Party, and a few others. But none seem to get any traction in this system we have. In my opinion, it starts with ALL news outlets and their coverage. I don't want to get into a big bla bla Fox is right yada yada the rest are left argument about it. None of the cable networks, or even nationally respected newspapers, go outside of the R and D with their coverage. It needs to start there or it can't start at all. We're literally ruled by either Republicans or Democrats. It makes me physically sick.

Unfortunately, when you live in a country with a first past the post voting system, it's hard to persuade people that voting for a minority party isn't a "wasted vote". I live in the UK, and the political system is dominated by two really big parties. The last general election was unusual in that neither of the two big parties gained an overall majority, so one of them had to go into a coalition with the third biggest party. Most other European democracies operate on proportional representation systems instead, which results in a more balanced spread of political parties gaining representation in government.

Of course I've heard of the third parties you mentioned and there are even more. All you have to do is vote to know that. As long as the third parties come across as weak, people will continue to vote for the lesser of two evils. We're afraid voting for a third party candidate would cause the wrong politician to win. Maybe it would be best if we didn't know what party any of the candidates were in and we could vote for their platform and not the party. Of course after they're in we'll know which party they support. What a shame it's the party they're supporting and not the country.

I can't remember where but I read that a third party has to get a certain % on the vote in the primaries before they can be in the debates as far as I know that only happened once in recent history with Ralph Nater I think. We should have open debates for anyone running for office there should not be rules to exclude the little guy