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Third party examples: libertarian small government that protects people and property and does not do much else; occasionally win elections at county or city levels, green parties major cause is environmental protections; do not like big business or nuclear power, american communist party left wing economic party, american nazi party fascist, reactionary, right wing, there are many more. Influence the major parties if enough people agree: some people vote for third parties because they cannot bring themselves to vote for democrats or republicans, sometimes have dreams of becoming successful (republicans formed as a third party and managed to become a major party when the whig party fell apart, hope for some influence on government policy, sometimes a third party that is fairly successful has an influence on the election splits the vote makes the party they dislike the most win.

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