Sen. LisaĀ Murkowski, aghastĀ at Donald Trumpās candidacy and the direction of her party, wonāt rule out bolting from the GOP.
The veteran Alaska Republican, one ofĀ seven Republicans who voted to convict TrumpĀ in his second impeachment trial amid the aftermath of January 6, 2021, is done with the former president and said she āabsolutelyā wouldĀ not vote for him.
āI wish thatĀ as Republicans, we had ā¦ a nominee that I could get behind,ā Murkowski told CNN. āI certainly canāt get behind Donald Trump.ā
The partyās shift toward Trump has causedĀ MurkowskiĀ to consider her future within the GOP. In the interview, she would not say if she would remain a Republican.
Asked if she would become an independent,Ā MurkowskiĀ said: āOh, I think Iām very independent minded.ā And she added:Ā āI just regret that our party is seemingly becoming a party of Donald Trump.ā
Iām not sure how we fry this fish without fixing our voting system. Thereās no real incentive for anyone to do better in the current system.
-this- fish is christofascism, and when christofascists are running, you fry it by voting for whoever has the best chance of beating them. Is it an optimal solution? Fuck no, but itās the only thing we can do.
Fixing the system is a much longer term goal that may never actually happen if we stay stuck in this death spiral with christofascism, but failing to push against the christofascism isnāt going to help the 3rd parties, itāll just accelerate the christofascism.
And as shitty as it is, maintaining the status quo is orders of magnitude more preferable than christofascism.
Just electing someone who isnāt a christofacist isnāt a solution. You need the choice to stop being between X and christfacism every election. X is going to lose an election at some point. People are going to stop believing that this is the most important election and of our lives, and we need to overlook anything wrong with X.
Agreed, but itās the closest thing to a solution we have. Wasting your vote on a 3rd just invites the christofascists to take power - and if we let that happen, there is ZERO chance for a 3rd to take power.
Right now we have two realistic outcomes: red victory or blue victory. You can nudge the odds toward one of those two. Thatās it. Your action or inaction only influences those two outcomes. Choose wisely.
I didnāt say waste your vote on 3rd parties. I said to get out of this christofacist death spiral, we probably need to fix our voting system. Obviously, that isnāt going to happen in one election cycle. But we need to be pushing that reform. Because the next election cycle isnāt going to magically be any better than this one without it.
Gotcha, then yeah I misunderstood. The earlier poster I was responding to was advocating for wasting votes on 3rds, so I assumed you were posting under that same context.
Yes our system is shit, and yes it will still probably be shit next cycle too.