How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders
How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders
Trump says Netanyahu is doing a good job and Biden is holding him back. Even on this issue, Trump is worse
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I decide how I will vote based on whether the candidate is close enough to me across all issues. I don't support genocide, but Harris hasn't advocated launching strikes against Israeli military bases. That's a minus. I support aggressively addressing climate change, Harris is not aggressive enough on the issue. Another minus. I believe the government should set prices of goods based on the needs of the populace. Harris wants to impact the prices of some goods, but she supports free market pricing for others. Minus again. I believe in the rights of the innocent in our judicial system. Harris is a former prosecutor.
Harris doesn't check enough boxes for me, so I'm doing what I did in 2020 again. I'm voting for the only person who truly aligns with my beliefs - myself. Please join me by writing each of yourselves in for President in 2024.
How does that voting strategy effect policies aligned with your concerns?
Oh, I know the answer to this.
Badly.
There's a difference between i) writing a satirical comment that makes an extreme version of an argument to draw attention to the general argument's flaws and ii) trolling people by continuing to pretend to hold a silly point of view, drawing them into a protracted argument.
I'd prefer to treat your question as rhetorical.
Satire typically requires a position which is distinguishable from sincerely held beliefs.
Yeah, I thought I did this, and then some guy agreed with me.
Well I'm glad I made my comment anyway--there are about 20,000 other people on lemmy who would do well to see it. Yay!
Pointless Stupid Gesture 2024!
The worst part is you're not voting for yourself, you are allowing your vote to be transformed into a vote for trump, and it shouldn't be that way.
First past the post voting is the enemy here. Until we ditch it, it truly is a shitty, shitty two party system where not voting for harris is voting for trump. Normally only gangs and morons think "if you're not with me, you're against me"--first past the post creates a law of physics for voting that makes that dumbass way of thinking the law of the land. And "law" like thermodynamics, ie, not the kind you can flip off the cops and break.
We need to change the rules of the game to ones that don't suck so bad. That starts with fourth reich prevention, which under first past the post can only mean a vote for harris.
Yup. It's on the ballot for the first time here and I hope it passes!
I mean, crap, if ALASKA can do it...
Man I feel similar to you but after Biden was shoehorned through the primary in 2020 I voted for Gloria LA riva and now I've written in Claudia de la Cruz / Karina Garcia. I think this method or even a vote for that hack Jill Stein actually would show the DNC they are losing votes based on their continued shift to the right and I am even considering leaving the party on my registration over their antidemocratic primaries and their decisions to fund the campaigns of right wing extremists under the misguided notion that they're easier to beat.
Dont get me wrong, I hope Harris/Walz wins but I do not support them because their positions continue to reinforce the status quo and prop up a system that supports fascism today, right now, at home and abroad.
Otherwise im voting downballot blue except where there is a further left independent which in my area is viable for another statewide position. Thats the most practical support the " at least I'm not the other guy" strategy will get from me, and they didnt even earn it.