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DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 month agoIn a two-party system, you’re throwing away your vote that could get Harris instead of Trump elected for not even a blip on the radar. This is at best pointless grandstanding.
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 1 month ago
How exactly are you not throwing your vote away voting Harris or Trump, in full knowledge that neither is going to do anything meaningful to help the poor and working class?
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Are you seriously trying to promote a false equivalency narrative?
FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I’m asking a legitimate question here.
We can look back at the last 40 years, but the last 20 in particular, when Democrats were handed a mandate not once bet twice.
And they’ve used that power to make us poorer, not wealthier.
So how exactly are you not throwing your vote away voting Harris or Trump, given that we can look at recent history and infer exactly what they’re going to do once elected?
Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 month ago
OK, I’ll bite.
Trump will be worse for marginalized people, trans folks in particular. Harris has a history of supporting LGBTQIA+ rights.
Trump will be worse for Palestine (and has said as much). Harris has at least entertained a cease fire.
Trump, despite the lies that he utters, will make every move to implement Project 2025, which will destroy any semblance of democracy. Harris won’t do that.
I am so sick of the bosthsideism bullshit. Just because they are both bad, does not mean one isn’t dramatically worse. This election is going to be close, and as shitty as it is, the US is a 2 party system. Third parties do not have a chance with the current electoral system.
If you want that to change, you have start local and work up the chain. Not voting or voting third party is pointless until there is a change in system, and that starts locally.