“Third-party” in the context of US politics (I think that’s where it comes from and is most widely used, owing to its major structural problems that almost inherently create only two major parties federally) is an abstract term referring to any minor political party, not specifically the third-most-popular. There’s no such thing as “voting fourth-party”, so an nth level of abstraction beyond that becomes absurdist.
“Voting ninth-party” sounds like a level of abstraction that describes writing in a termite mound in the Gondswana Rainforests.
All the candidates are Johnny Depp’s characters
Why so abstract? We have 5 parties that have seats in parliament and 9 other registered parties that don’t.
“Third-party” in the context of US politics (I think that’s where it comes from and is most widely used, owing to its major structural problems that almost inherently create only two major parties federally) is an abstract term referring to any minor political party, not specifically the third-most-popular. There’s no such thing as “voting fourth-party”, so an nth level of abstraction beyond that becomes absurdist.
We know and disapprove
with the coalition-building and last-minute allegiance changes that goes on in this country it might as well be