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If you vote democrat no matter what they do (and voting in spite of the current regime committing a genocide communicates that you will do exactly that), they have no incentive to take your interests at heart, and will move in the direction of the interests of the highest bidder. And this is an observable effect: fairly consistently throughout the years (and this goes back to at least Clinton), the policies and positions of the dems are exactly those of the republicans four years ago, aside from some meaningless posturing and vibes. Look at where we are with the border wall for example, or the children in cages at the border (more now than under Trump), or abortion (FOUR years of a dem president, and nothing has been done, despite promises).
You vote blue no matter who people are flushing your democracy down the drain. For the love of god, make your vote count and vote for something for a change. Vote Jill Stein or Cornell West. Or if you like murdering tens of thousands of innocent children (as we've done under the Biden regime), vote Kamala "most lethal fighting force in the world" Harris. If you're lucky, you might be paying for the murder of Iranian children next.
Even from across the ocean I can see the shitshow that is your electoral system. Third parties won't work as long as that dumb First Past the Post system is kept up, so you're completely wasting your vote.
The kids will be killed by the Genocidal State of Israel anyway. Your only choice is if you want to watch from a broken system of democracy, or a dictatorship.
The change you want to see won’t happen from the top because of the electoral system. It needs to happen from the ground up. It’s in the local elections and primaries where you need to push for “radical” candidates. That’s also how the US can get rid of the FPTP system.
Pushing for a third party once every four years won’t do shit and will only help the candidate who will actually lose the popular vote win the race.
Would be nice if that was an option one could take without consequences, but it isn't. Doing that will help Trump.
The system is fucked. As long as it's FPTP and one of the two parties fronts a fascist, you have to vote against the fascist or be complicit in helping fascism.
Sucks to be US-American, but it's true.
For the love of god, make your vote count and vote for something for a change. Vote Jill Stein
Actual Jill Stein quote: "we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of MI. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without MI."
Vote who you want local. But if you do not vote democrats on a federal level, you are basically handing your vote to Trump.
What's your move, dumbass?
I'm so fucking tired of seeing this garbage fucking everywhere on this site. With high(ish) scores like this.
I honestly just hope it's because lemmy is easy to game or something.
For one, they’ll all stop come November as they do every election cycle. And two, they actually get downvoted quite often. It’s just some of them have little fan clubs that follow them around.