2016 Postmortem

Every election cycle will have its 3rd parties and 3rd party voters. We can rant and rave an wail and gnash our teeth at them, and we are 100% right to do so, but they will always, always be there. In very small percentages of course, that is the nature of our system, but it will be impossible to eliminate them completely. You can make it your mission to shame them out of existence for the next 4 years but it will be futile. Noble, but futile.

Better effort would be spent on changing the system so that such small percentage of voters would not have such a dramatic effect, i.e. eliminate the electoral college or advocate for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. A long-shot, maybe, but less quixotic than whatever effect you hope railing agaisnt 3rd-party voters will have.

Oh and no, no one deserves Trump, not even Trump voters. It feels good to vent at them, but the hell-on-earth he's about to unleash is deserved by no one. I can only hope that they will see the folly of their vote over time, and we can certainly help convince them of that.