Comment on Stay Mad
goldenlocks@lemmy.world 4 months agoHe lied about student loan forgiveness.
He has us barreling towards WWIII and has destroyed our reputation on a global scale with our support of genocide in Palestine.
Comment on Stay Mad
goldenlocks@lemmy.world 4 months agoHe lied about student loan forgiveness.
He has us barreling towards WWIII and has destroyed our reputation on a global scale with our support of genocide in Palestine.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 months ago
I got a question for you though.
What is the alternative?
goldenlocks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think the Green party is better, that’s why I vote for it. Google “democracy” and find out why!
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 months ago
Let me put it this way.
Right now, no one knows your chosen third-party candidate exists. Let’s suppose you, personally, set out to change that. Let’s suppose you’re the best campaign manager ever, and that you and your friends lead the best grassroots campaign in history, so much so that come November you’ve convinced everyone who would have voted third party and two-thirds of the people who would have voted for Biden to vote for your candidate instead.
Let’s suppose that, had you done nothing, the vote breakdown will be the same in 2024 as it was in 2020. Biden got 51.3% of the popular vote, Trump got 46.8%, and that leaves just under 2% who voted third party. In 2024, thanks to your heroic efforts, the green party candidate gets 36.2% of the vote and Biden gets 17.1%, but oh no – Trump wins by a landslide because Trump supporters, who care not for your left-of-center politics, stuck by their guy and gave him 46% of the vote again, and in first-past-the-post voting, that’s all that matters! Your heroic efforts to get your message out about your better candidate only resulted in splitting the vote and ensuring Trump would win!
goldenlocks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This would be the greatest accomplishment for the working class in American history if it happened. The Greens would then start to win congressional seats, and being the process of taking over the government just like the Morena party just did in Mexico.