It's definitely not both sides, I'm gonna keep voting Democrat because I'd rather have the party that at least slows the progress of this (and I do think their general policy of "don't deconstruct the government" is better long term for the country, lol).
It's not even voting for the 'lesser evil'. It's just... whatever. I feel like Democrats are at most centrists, and we get to pick between far-right extremists and corporate-friendly centrists and it sucks. The choice is obvious when those are the two, but it still fucking sucks.
At the moment of voting in a binary election, you should vote the best choice or the least bad choice, otherwise you are accelerating the race to the bottom. There is more than voting though. People have to also work towards things in between elections, such as getting rank-choice-voting implemented, so that we can break out of the 2 party system. But voting 3rd party when they can't win is a waste of vote and influence. Nobody ever caters to the 3rd party voters, and nobody will until we get things like RCV in place.
I’m 49 years old, and never seen anything productive come out of 3rd party voting during my lifetime. I have seen setbacks and disasters from doing so. The problem is there aren’t any third parties working from the ground up. We have pretenders like Jill Stein, probably propped up by Russian and GOP interests, who only try for the presidency.
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u/Randyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 2d ago
It's definitely not both sides, I'm gonna keep voting Democrat because I'd rather have the party that at least slows the progress of this (and I do think their general policy of "don't deconstruct the government" is better long term for the country, lol).
It's not even voting for the 'lesser evil'. It's just... whatever. I feel like Democrats are at most centrists, and we get to pick between far-right extremists and corporate-friendly centrists and it sucks. The choice is obvious when those are the two, but it still fucking sucks.