Why We Need Third Parties in Politics

Robin Lea Laurain
2 min readDec 11, 2020

Every election cycle in the United States, the Democrats and Republicans call third party voters, “the spoilers”. This name is used to vote shame voters into not voting for third-party candidates and only casting their vote for the duopoly. Vote-shamers have the misguided idea that citizens are required to vote for either a Democrat or Republican candidate. We are not and many voters will not even vote because of their…

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Robin Lea Laurain

Retired travel nurse, politician, multi-generational grandmother, Green Party, activist, writer, anti-war, #BDS