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Silly. Any SPAM filter should be user driven. If you mark Democrat or Republican emails as SPAM then the system, Gmail or others, should put those in your SPAM

Silly. Any SPAM filter should be user driven. If you mark Democrat or Republican emails as SPAM then the system, Gmail or others, should put those in your SPAM folder. The worst are political bulk emails that do not have an unsubscribe link. I kept getting stuff from Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party that I was not interested in and they did not offer an unsubscribe option - but marking them as SPAM fixed the problem. I am a Libertarian mostly because they are the only viable party against forever wars, but also because I don’t have to talk politics since Democratic and Republican friends and family tend to not want to talk politics with me, a big win!

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dctoedt 4y ago
> I am a Libertarian mostly because they are the only viable party against forever wars I mean this gently and not as snark: In the U.S.'s first-past-the-post electoral system, at the national level no third party is "viable" in any meaningful sense. History: On the national stage, no third party has been successful to any degree since the Republican Party emerged from the ashes of the Whig Party in 1856. The most that any third-party presidential candidate has been able to do is play the spoiler: see 1912 (T. Roosevelt -> Wilson), possibly 1992 (Ross Perot -> Clinton), 2000 (Ralph Nader -> Bush II), 2016 (Jill Stein -> Trump). What this means: In the U.S. — with its mostly-rigid control of Congress and state legislatures by party caucuses — the rational choice for voters is to pick the party (not the individual candidate) that's least objectionable in your eyes. Voting for a third party just makes it that much more likely that your more-objectionable party will win.
- mark_l_watson 4y ago
  Thanks, I don’t mind your comment at all, it is true that between the military industrial complex, Wall Street, etc. it is a lock for the two parties.

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dctoedt 4y ago

> I am a Libertarian mostly because they are the only viable party against forever wars I mean this gently and not as snark: In the U.S.'s first-past-the-post electoral system, at the national level no third party is "viable" in any meaningful sense. History: On the national stage, no third party has been successful to any degree since the Republican Party emerged from the ashes of the Whig Party in 1856. The most that any third-party presidential candidate has been able to do is play the spoiler: see 1912 (T. Roosevelt -> Wilson), possibly 1992 (Ross Perot -> Clinton), 2000 (Ralph Nader -> Bush II), 2016 (Jill Stein -> Trump). What this means: In the U.S. — with its mostly-rigid control of Congress and state legislatures by party caucuses — the rational choice for voters is to pick the party (not the individual candidate) that's least objectionable in your eyes. Voting for a third party just makes it that much more likely that your more-objectionable party will win.

mark_l_watson 4y ago
Thanks, I don’t mind your comment at all, it is true that between the military industrial complex, Wall Street, etc. it is a lock for the two parties.