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HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 6 days agoIf there were a “no genocide” candidate that could win, making that a single issue would matter.
But voting is valuable even if your candidate doesn’t win. It’s about having your desires counted on the public record.
If politicians see that they’re losing votes to anti-genocide third-party candidates, they’ll take notice.
pastabatman@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Get your desires on the public record in local and state elections and primaries where it might actually matter. For a US presidential election it’s an entirely empty gesture that makes you and only you feel better. No policies will change. No causes will be advanced. History will not remember you. It is very likely, however, that will make the lives of vulnerable people inside and outside of this country worse by giving trump a second term.
HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Or, maybe politicians will see that they’re losing votes to anti-genocide third-party candidates, and their policies will change.
And if not, then we don’t have a democracy anyway. If it’s not possible for the USA to cease its support for genocide, then this is not a liberal democracy, and this is certainly not the leader of the free world.
What happened to “never again”? Never again is now and all I’m hearing is “eh, what can you do?”.