Each group drains from the DNC and costs them votes. We saw the Green party's effect on the DNC in the 2000 election. Even though they share 90% of the ideas they take a single issue and split from the party. Idolizing 10% and losing 90%. Not a good bargain.
Imagine the country as a boulder falling down a slope. The Donkey is on top riding it down. The Elephant is pushing as hard as he can to stop the boulder and then the libertarians are there kicking the elephants legs out from under him.
If you agree with the principles of the DNC then by all means vote Libertarian this time around if the Republican isn't a lock.
Each group drains from the DNC and costs them votes. We saw the Green party's effect on the DNC in the 2000 election. Even though they share 90% of the ideas they take a single issue and split from the party. Idolizing 10% and losing 90%. Not a good bargain.
Imagine the country as a boulder falling down a slope. The Donkey is on top riding it down. The Elephant is pushing as hard as he can to stop the boulder and then the libertarians are there kicking the elephants legs out from under him. If you agree with the principles of the DNC then by all means vote Libertarian this time around if the Republican isn't a lock.
Your analogy is amusing but not quite accurate; the elephant and the donkey are both pushing the boulder down the hill and the ferret (Libertarian) is pushing back as hard as he can. Meanwhile the weasel (Big Business) and the hyena (Big Labor) are sawing the Libertarian's legs out from under him.
They're using a saw from the Libertarian's workshop which was confiscated in a raid by the elephant and the donkey who were looking for dangerous unlicensed hand tools. Of course the elephant and donkey are supported by the ferret's taxes so in effect the ferret has paid someone else to steal his own property.