sorry for the typo.
the comments make it incredibly obvious to me ive struck a bit of a nerve here, so I am going to move my comment into the body so maybe there is a little less confusion.
“for the record, i do believe in voting. i dont believe that an individual vote matters, and i dont believe the will of the public is the deciding factor in policymaking. at the very least i believe in federal voting as harm reduction for the time being, but i will not pretend a democrat in office stops innocent lives or our liberties being taken from us.”
alt text: a 4 panel comic where character A says “if you don’t want biden to win, you must support trump” character 2 says “i don’t accept moral responsibility for the corporate owned two party system” the comic ends with character 1 growing angry at this response and calling character 2 a fascist.
The candidates the two parties offer are because people don’t agree with you. Fuck’s sake. In the GOP the only non-fascist candidate in 2016 got, what, 10% of the primary vote? While Bernie garnered very distinctly not a majority of votes in the primaries in 2016 and 2020.
Most people in this country are further right than you or me. As long as that’s true, FPTP or not, you WILL be making strategic decisions you don’t like. That’s the price of being a citizen.
i suppose i shouldnt be shocked someone who stans a dead empire wouldnt understand that i dont think things being better in 1000 years maybe is an acceptable course of action. nice arguing with you.
Cool, thanks for acknowledging that you have no response to my argument. You have fun pretending that democracy is when people agree with you.