Head for the Ideal? Or Deal with the Practical?

How Should You Vote?

I read an article the other day by a philosopher who essentially said voting for third party candidates in the US is stupid. Politics, they ventured, was a practical game... praxis, not theoria… and it had no place for the ideal. He proposed since the political life is a form of the vita activa, not vita contemplativa, that those who vote for third-part…