Life long Dem voter here. I’ll never vote for a liberal or zio again. Hard to believe the Dems could lose my vote during a Trump presidency, but here we are.
Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates?
disregardable@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No, this year more than literally any other year than human history would be the absolute worst time to not vote for a democratic candidate. We are dealing with unprecedented challenges to rule of law, and we need every single person with a functioning soul to scream “NO” as loud as we can. Because if you don’t, you might not goet another chance.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 16 hours ago
As a black man and mother of two…
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You don’t have to believe me, it matters little.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
We know the line, most important election. Yada yada yada. I’ve been hearing that every election for the last 38 years since I can vote. If Democrats would stop voting for what they thought was the lesser evil things wouldn’t keep getting worse
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
If Democrats would stop voting for what they thought was the lesser evil things wouldn’t keep getting worse
If you could get every Democratic voter to collectively agree to that, yeah, sure.
Do you have an actionable plan to get 80 million voters to suddenly vote differently? Because if not, that’s kind of a useless hypothetical.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Seeing that they have tried the same failed approach for decades, they’re not going to change. They’ll just bitch about the system as it is while refusing to acknowledge their participation in it
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
So then you admit that it’s a useless hypothetical, and your proposed strategy doesn’t actually accomplish anything except splitting the vote to let the far right win more?
octobob@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Been hearing this exact line for decades. Yawn
disregardable@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
yeah, hasn’t every administration fired the entire federal government for refusing to tell the president no, coordinated an election fraud campaign, and then pardoned the people who participated? that’s totally normal.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, you’re not wrong, but also try your best to primary candidates outside of the two parties, if you’re in the US.
While it is true there are no good kings, we should try to get as many halfway decent people in the office as possible.
Once primaries are done, then under no circumstances vote for Republicans. And if the option is between a Democrat that might narrowly win and a third-party candidate that might narrowly win, then vote for the third-party candidate. Otherwise vote for Democrats.
disregardable@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I prefer to try to primary a candidate within my party, because no offnese people not voting in the primaries is how we got joe biden.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
newsome is far worst than biden in opinion.