I will never forget that Gavin Newsom vetoed ranked choice voting in CA. He’s already demonstrated that he is anti-democratic. I would vote against Trump every time no matter who the DNC put up, including Newsom, but I would be holding my nose yet again to vote for the less shitty of two shitty choices. The DNC can’t keep running on “we’re not Trump.” They needed to give us a candidate we actually wanted.
Astute viewers at home may have noticed that the Democrats just lost the last election with that strategy. Just because I’ll hold my nose and do the necessary thing doesn’t mean everyone else will. In fact, they didn’t.
Just because I’ll hold my nose and do the necessary thing doesn’t mean everyone else will.
The ‘necessary thing’ is voting for a fascist multi millionaire? He may be slightly better than the current guy, since the bar to pass is so low, but he’s very far from an actually valid candidate.
I understand different people have different situations in which the ‘necessary thing’ may vary. However, he’ll only solve a handful of current issues plaguing the USA, if even that. From whefe I’m standing (which arguably is quite far away as I’m a European) you’d achieve much more by protesting. Especially given that there may not be another election in your country. Though I’m also aware protests in the USA may come with serious risk of injury or loss of life.
I will never forget that Gavin Newsom vetoed ranked choice voting in CA. He’s already demonstrated that he is anti-democratic. I would vote against Trump every time no matter who the DNC put up, including Newsom, but I would be holding my nose yet again to vote for the less shitty of two shitty choices. The DNC can’t keep running on “we’re not Trump.” They needed to give us a candidate we actually wanted.
Apparently they don’t
Astute viewers at home may have noticed that the Democrats just lost the last election with that strategy. Just because I’ll hold my nose and do the necessary thing doesn’t mean everyone else will. In fact, they didn’t.
The ‘necessary thing’ is voting for a fascist multi millionaire? He may be slightly better than the current guy, since the bar to pass is so low, but he’s very far from an actually valid candidate.
I understand different people have different situations in which the ‘necessary thing’ may vary. However, he’ll only solve a handful of current issues plaguing the USA, if even that. From whefe I’m standing (which arguably is quite far away as I’m a European) you’d achieve much more by protesting. Especially given that there may not be another election in your country. Though I’m also aware protests in the USA may come with serious risk of injury or loss of life.
I guess you could call it “the bare minimum”: voting against the worst option.
I don’t know where in Europe you are, but fascist populism is on the rise over there too. You might want to get to protesting yourself.