I find it rather ironic when as a lifetime Independent voter I am told over and over again by lifetime democrats or republicans that me voting for a third party is wasting my vote. I'm nearing 70, so ... View MoreI find it rather ironic when as a lifetime Independent voter I am told over and over again by lifetime democrats or republicans that me voting for a third party is wasting my vote. I'm nearing 70, so I've been able to vote in a few elections. Over those years the vast majority of those votes did go to either an R or D because that's all there was. But yes I have voted third party too. Now that being said as I watch the political shit show over those decades and the R or D party has won every single time, I have to think well here we are still taxed to death, unsafe in our country, being ripped off for trillions of dollars by illegals and and our government itself, and watching criminals being released to kill more citizens and the government trying to take away our rights to defend against those criminals or the government itself who have become the criminals, etc etc. etc. because there is so much more that is wrong with America today. Well I have to wonder if the R & D parties have won all these decades how did I not waste my vote, because I am trying to vote to save the country I love and for all those decades I feel like my vote has been wasted no matter which side won because America and its people are still losing. The only small improvement I've seen from my voting was to vote for someone who was never a politician but ran as a republican just to be able to get a chance to win and help America. Yet when he wins and does try to help, many of those politicians from the two parties hate what he is doing and fight him every minute of every day. Certainly appears to me that if you tell me my vote for a third party is a wasted vote, then why even vote then? As any vote I make is wasted. Just saying.