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You guys were voting based on "lesser of two evils" and not based on who you actually like?
I've always just voted for the guy I like best. I never felt that voting tactically was truthful.
If everyone was like me we'd have a nicer political climate, I think.
I'll keep doing that so you can feel free to join me in doing that until we reach the critical mass point.
That'd require there to have ever been a candidate I like. There hasn't been, at least on the federal level
You can always skip offices that don't have a good candidate.
Spoiled votes are tracked as a separate statistic!
Continued complacency by people bitching about candidates not being good enough is how we're on the knifes edge of destroying our democracy here in the states.
I don't like the people I vote for, but I sure as fuck would rather live in our current neolib hellscape than the psuedotheocratic bullshit the loudest voices in the GOP so clearly want. Sitting on your ass enables exactly that
Put up a non-genocidal climate expert who's actually willing to disenfranchise Big Oil, then we can talk; til then, die nameless :)
That assumes that there are any viable candidates running that we actually like. That's becoming more and more a pipe dream, haven't seen one since Obama.
Obama was in office 7 years ago. βSince Obamaβ was day before yesterday in political terms.
And? Ever since he left office it's been one piece of shit after another. It shouldn't be too much to ask for a presidential candidate to be something besides "less terrible than the other guy".
Since Obama? Drone king, slavery-in-Libya Obama? Riotous.
Sometimes I have to write someone in, but it still counts as a vote!
That person is not a viable candidate, and you've basically just helped out the greater of two evils by refusing to oppose him.
Since you're talking specifically about the presidential election, I actually am helping my candidate, since if I and others can get 1% of the popular vote for someone, then they can get easier access to ballots, debates, and federal funding next time.
No, you're not helping your candidate, your candidate is beyond help. They're going to lose. Either Biden is going to win, or Trump is going to win, and if you vote for anyone but Biden, you're complicit in helping Trump.