> 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

> 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.