Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen?

• Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The lefties I asked said they couldn’t vote for a genocidal party or candidate. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

  There, someone said it. People seem to be under the mistaken impression that we’re voting for which hero will save us. No. We’re voting for which villain we can live with. By not voting for the villain you more closely align with, you are failing to cancel out a vote for the villain you least align with. Congrats, you helped get the way more genocidal villain in power. People wish this wasn’t the way our system works, and let that belief in wishful thinking dictate action. In doing so they make token gestures like not voting which gets completely lost in the noise of legions of others not voting for other reasons.

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, yeah, you should vote, but you should vote for a non-genocidal candidate. I voted for Jill Stein.

    I’m not voting for a hero or a villain. I’m voting for a president. If you want me to vote for your candidate, then they have to have a platform like Jill Stein’s.

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    • Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good work. Your plan helped elect the most genocidal candidate. Voting how you wish things work versus how they actually work tends to do things like that.

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, I voted for the world that I want. That’s what a vote is.

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