I’m not excited to vote for a corporate Dem again, but if that’s what it takes to keep a twice impeached fascist out of the White House, we’ll then, sign me the fuck up.
I’m not excited to vote for a corporate Dem again, but if that’s what it takes to keep a twice impeached fascist out of the White House, we’ll then, sign me the fuck up.
This is Biden’s entire re-election strategy in a nutshell. I’m gonna hold my nose and vote for him too for the exact same reason, but I’m tired of having preselected candidates rolled out in front of me and being forced to vote for the less shitty person.
I’m sorry to tell you but that is the entire history of the US presidential election system. Before the mid-1800s some states didn’t even let the public vote, the legislature of the state selected their electoral representatives who picked the president.
“Voting isn’t marriage, it’s public transport. You’re not waiting for “the one” who’s absolutely perfect: you’re getting the bus, and if there isn’t one to your destination, you don’t not travel- you take the one going closest.”
People keep focusing on Donnie when all the other repug candidates would also be just as bad or worse.
And yes Cheeto is the focus because he’s the frontrunner but we can’t lose sight of the rest.
It’s really crazy that the “somebody other than Trump” campaign approach has endured for ~4 years.
I don’t have the words to describe how far the credibility of the United States has fallen in my lifetime.
I remember when Dan Quayle misspelled potato, and poof, his career was over. Now you have a criminal reality TV star running for reelection.
You don’t even have to go that far back. Howard Dean’s enthusiastic-but-awkward yell was such a non-issue, and it still ruined his whole campaign.
It was even more of a non issue than you think. The clip that went around had the audience noise removed to make it seem more awkward than it was.
or anything but a republican
I hope Gen Z sees the problem with Republicans and continues the push to get enough out of office we can keep righting the ship.
Biden may not be perfect, but he got a shit ton of stuff done with Republicans doing everything they can to ruin the economy, jobs, and their future.
I hope Gen Z does better than those before them and gets actively involved in such a way we can start abandoning this wack ass two party nonsense.
Ranked choice voting certainly has it’s issues, but damnit of it isn’t so much better than what we have.
I’m open for a Somebody not Biden, Somebody not Trump, Somebody not Republican, Somebody not from a crazy batshit philosophy with rabid tyrants behind and Somebody who is competent to be on the ballot.
Can we get that someone, please?
Vote Green.
No. Do not vote for any candidate other than the one picked by the Democratic party (probably Biden) to run against the Republican candidate (probably Trump). Voting for alternative parties decreases Democratic votes for Biden, and increases the chances of a Trump reelection. Alternative candidates (even if they’re absolutely amazing individuals) don’t have a chance in hell of getting enough votes to make a difference, but they have an excellent chance of diverting voting mass from the Democratic candidate. Unless you’re really stoked for another four years of Trump and his fascist cronies, go for a straight Democratic ticket. Your protest vote won’t help anyone except Trump. Guaranteed. I wouldn’t be surprised if Republicans are supporting third party candidates in battleground states, cause that would be a smart move. Please vote for the Democrat, ffs.
So how are we supposed to actually get a genuinely progressive candidate in? And we can’t just leave things with the terrible two-party system we have. What’s the alternative other than “Vote lesser evil! Maybe we’ll get someone good rather than just not terrible eventually!”? Am I missing something here? ~Cherri
I mean kind of, but more like, “Let’s keep that crazy guy from making things absolutely dogshit and then from there we figure improvements out, but if the fascists take over it’s game over because they change the rules as soon as they get power in order to keep power.”
It’s not voting for a lesser evil. It’s a vote to keep democracy turned on. Once the democracy is turned off it’s incredibly hard to turn back on again. One guy talks about invalidating elections due to imaginary fraud while selling state secrets. The other guy is just old but he likes it when people vote in elections for things. Is that the lesser of two evils? Kind of a silly phrase. Any two things, one will be more evil, and as nothing is perfect, the other will have less but still some evil. The lesser of two evils is an excuse to do nothing or in this case, scuttle any hope of doing better in the future.
