but he makes a great point in that particular clip.
No he doesn't, he makes some cute jokes, but those are not at all similar.
Russell Brand is an idiot. The worst thing, however, is that he is clever and funny, and so his complete and utter ignorance, and complete and utter desire to educate himself (this lack of knowledge and refusal to change that, even though he's talking about it is what I'm calling idiocy), is masked by cute little lines that resonate with other people that don't know anything either.
Not voting is the stupidest thing out there. It's true that the system is set up in a messed up way, so that we only have two candidates, and these two people are the best funded morons, instead of the most qualified individuals, but to claim that voting for something you believe in doesn't work is to be completely ridiculous.
Hell, look at the Tea Party. Sure, the majority of the tea party is a bunch of racist, backwards idiots who claim to love the constitution but lack the brainpower to actually comprehend it (leading to a lot of hilariously ironic statements on their part). Sure, the tea party movement is bankrolled by people like the Koch's and is the not-quite-official party of the Fox News Network, but it is a BIG change in the republican party and it pretty accurately reflects the beliefs and desires of the vast majority of the people who have joined it. AND it is VERY effective, changing the political climate of our country, altering the conversation in a real way and getting a lot of laws out there that echo their beliefs. Real change, real action, real, effective, political movement.
And what has happened from people who echo brand's philosophy? NOTHING. Occupy Wallstreet was impassioned, but it was a group of disparate people who refused to find a central message, was made up of people who didn't vote, and it had the grand total effect of sticking your finger up your ass and telling your representative that he resembled your shit covered digit. A nice sentiment, sure, but nothing changes and at the end of the day, you're the only one with shit on their hands.
And Crytpo (this is mostly all aimed at you anyways), if you really think that your local government is AT ALL akin to the PTA, you're even more of an idiot. Not only does your local government have more to do with regulating your actual day to do life, not only do they have more power to change things that actually matter to you, but they are ALSO easy to get into contact with, AND your votes and participation can make massive and completely powerful changes to the climate.
As to the OP: I vote, mostly, for the major parties, because in the US, the third party candidates are all whackjobs who espouse policies that sometimes are quite nice on paper, but which possess zero ability to be implemented. Except for on a local level, and then it's really anyone's guess as to who I'll vote for (as the actual personality of the person tends to matter a whole lot more than any party affiliation).