Defeatist bs. This is a 2 party system. You pick the party that's going to get you closest to where you want to be, and try to get them to improve. Anything else is just aiding the opposition.
I like this analogy: politics is like a bus, you pick the one that's going to get you closest to where you want to be. Your problem in the US is you only have two buses, and one of them wants to drive straight off a cliff. If you don't want to take the drive off the cliff bus, your only choice is to punch your ticket for the other bus. Not punching that ticket is sending the message that you're actually alright with driving off the cliff.
If you want to send a message to the Democratic Party, you have to actually get involved. Not voting just makes driving off the proverbial cliff more likely. Case in point, the last two years.
If Democrats started winning every election, you'd quickly see a split within the Democrat party further to the left. You'd see the Republican party go up in flames.
He identifies as a Democratic socialist and votes along those lines. There are more actual Democratic congresspeople adopting that stance all the time. You're not going to see change if you don't get on board with making change. Stop making up reasons to be regressive.
It's the system we've got. Fantasizing about a third party only weakens Democratic voting power. The GOP is fully entrenched and taking all their orders from the top, so a third party only serves to divide the left. Save your idealism and take a serious look at what you can do to make change.
Not if people refuse to vote, like some of these idiots. And the fact is that we don't have ranked voting, so you have to work within the system you have until you have the power to make that change. It's super discouraging to see all these commentators just whining over things not being perfect and giving up. You'll never get what you want that way.
If you’re stupid enough to keep voting when it’s been proven time after time that people’s votes don’t mean shit and that votes can be manipulated. And dumb enough to choose sides when both side sides are evil and have evil in them is crazy. I’ll stay independent thank you.
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u/Roll-Roll-Roll 13h ago
Defeatist bs. This is a 2 party system. You pick the party that's going to get you closest to where you want to be, and try to get them to improve. Anything else is just aiding the opposition.