All the things you want is only possible with a Harris win. You want a better political system and stuff like ranked choice voting or viable third parties? Only happens with the Democrats in control. Nothing that you want will EVER happen with Republicans in control and a vote for a third party in this election does nothing but help Republicans.
If you're refusing to hold your nose and vote Harris because of some bs reason like 'she hasn't earned my vote' when the alternative is a demented fascist that supports stuff like monitoring womens' periods then you deserve all the vote shaming you get.
Let’s say candidate one said “if I win I’ll kill 3 babies,” and candidate two said “if I win I’ll only kill 1 baby”. Then you cast a protest vote for candidate three because “they’re both bad.”
The problem is, that means you were willing to risk the deaths of 2 extra babies to prove your point, which means you’re actually a worse person than candidate two.
More will suffer with Trump in charge. So voting third party is just you using others’ pain to prove your own point.
They're doing the murdering babies analogy unprompted now.
Link to comment just in case you think I'm making it up.
“All you want is there for the taking under a Zachary Taylor presidency! You want a better political system, only gonna happen under the whigs. Nothing you want will ever happen under Jacksonian Democrat control and voting for the third party’s that are actually anti slavery will just give the Jacksonian Democrats what they want.
If you are holding your nose to not vote for Zachary Taylor, when the alternative is insane slavery expansionist James K Polk that supports things like taking over Texas to give the slave states more senators, than you deserve to be vote shamed.
What I like for my president is a person who compromises so hard and so good that it feels like I’m losing.”
I've been seeing a lot of comments from libs with the exact phrase "hold your nose" lately, I'm not a politics messaging expert but you'd think maybe you wouldn't want to portray your chosen candidate as being total shit?
you wouldn't want to portray your chosen candidate as being total shit?
But they want, actually. If Democrats promised something tangible, they would have to deliver it or look like lying shit. If they promise nothing, they wouldn't have to do anything.
Democrats when democracy doesn't favor them 100% of the time and people don't literally have to vote for them:
"If you don't vote for the democrats in all elections always and forever, then I fantasize about shaming you and watching you suffer like I'm a creepy, vindictive little wiener. Get these third-party candidates off the ballot, they're stealing votes from us.
You have to be morally and politically pragmatic and vote for the democrats! No, they do not themselves have to be morally or politically pragmatic and stop arming a genocide to appeal to loony left voters. That would be compromising our values, which is only okay if we're shit-canning immigrants or dropping death-penalty abolition to appeal to the unicorn 'moderate republican.'
Not voting for the democrats is to endanger all of the people we haven't already discarded to maximize centrist appeal. Try not to be so selfish for once, GAWD."
sorry your compromised party couldn't find a way to select a candidate that can guarantee victory. I guess those opaque, backroom deals by all those clever adults who know so much more than us foolish children weren't so clever hmmmmmm.
I still miss the old wine cave jpeg composite that someone made me that included all of the above in one go. I misplaced it when I moved and got a new computer.
Then again, the person on the left there actually became pretty cool and good lately so I'd need a substitute. Maybe...