the entire idea of "vote-shaming" is extremely Late Republic. i do not know how to explain to someone who thinks that you aren't responsible for deciding who should be in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons just because you didn't consent to being given the responsibility
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this corrosive social media-derived expectation that "lol nothing matters lmao why are you being like this" is destroying society
if you can't take anything seriously you can't take it seriously when fascist lunatics try to take over the government
if you can't take anything seriously you can't take it seriously when fascist lunatics try to take over the government
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Republicans were feeding their base what they wanted. Democrats instead threaten their base with what Republicans want.
Which is why I ignore such liberals and vote my conscience and convictions.
However ...
Conservatives understand that in First-past-the-post voting systems that it's about what your against, not what your for which is why they keep winning.
They rely way too much on being the lesser of two evils instead of not being evil in the first place.
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As such, they really got the president they deserve.
Fixed it for ya.
"Better outcomes result from votes being withheld" is vastly more defensible than "the vote is my personal property". Yet far fewer people bother to say it.
Such a weird and selfish way to approach the world. Be better.
No one is ever going to be my ideal candidate, but I am always going to choose the person who is a viable candidate, and who is closer to being my ideal candidate.
"If the market doesn't make a product for you, you simply don't buy any of the options that -were- popular enough to produce."
Extremely consumer-brained
You don't get to live under the bespoke government you ordered off the menu! You (we) are making the decision for ALL of us, simultaneously! So you don't get to take a narrow, personal view!
President 'Nah' isn't an option, so it goes to Trump.
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The last US presidential election wherein a third party had at least a 1% vote share was 1968.
Before that was 1924.
So unless you're pushing 60, it has been that way your whole life, and unless you're pushing 80 it has been your whole adult life.
The only thing that matters is bashing liberals.
A. The Democrat
B. The Republican
C. I defer to the judgement of my fellow citizens
There are several ways to make choice C, but they're all pretty much created equal. 1/2
But you’re 40+ years old. When will the adult stuff be your responsibility?
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Plenty of people see their vote in terms of pure, if limited, power. Specifically, it’s their power to tilt the outcome of an election. That it.
I've been a strategy voter most of my life. I vote for who will do the least harm, even if I don't support them.
This is why no action was taken to codify Roe, for example: Dems needed the threat to the SCOTUS/Roe for *fundraising purposes.*
That's not a very sound campaign strategy, and a very poor motivator for folks who are struggling already. More people are motivated by "I'd have a beer with them" than they are by voting *against* something.
Voting is a communication, not an endorsement.
A vote isn't "earned" for the same reason posters here don't "earn" replies. They are not awards.
When you choose silence, like choosing not to vote, you simply deny yourself an opportunity to be heard.
Civics lessons, please!
Theres always a way out of that
None of this has *any* direct effect on the outcome of an election . The only thing with *direct* force and power is the vote itself.
Responsible citizens have a very different role - tipping elections one way or the other. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Cool, cool
Only the GOP is for that. The two sides are not the same.
‘’I have no political agency, I am merely a Smol Bean who crayons in whatever candidate seems funnier at the time. My vote doesn’t matter, so I’m gonna throw it from the pram!”