“Refusing to vote for Harris” is a hell of a way to frame it. Why do you think that people owed Harris their vote? If she wants to win, she has to earn her votes, just like every other politician.
As for it not being on the ballot: there were two anti-genocide candidates on my ballot — Jill Stein and Cornel West. Were they not on your ballot?
Voting for a third-party in a 2-party system is worse than not voting at all, because at least refusing to vote didn’t involve the incredible waste of resources that went to the third-party.
And the Green Party is to blame for so much of the state of the world. If just 1 percent of the Florida voters who supported Nader had voted Dem instead, Bush would never have been President. So, so many of the world’s problems can be traced back to the Green Party running an environmentalist ticket against Gore.
And Stein is the worst of all of them. She’s anti-vax, called Clinton more dangerous than Trump, and was pushed online by the Russian government in 2016 specifically to help Trump get elected by splitting the left.
And it’s not like Dems are required to bend the knee. Bernie isn’t aligned with the establishment Dems, but he still gets some stuff done and keeps issues in the national spotlight because he caucuses with them. AOC, Zandami, and more achieve shit because they’re Democrats.
You don’t move America left by throwing away your vote. You do it by voting in the primaries to move Dems left, and voting for the Dems in the general election.
I didn’t understand everyone refusing to vot for Harris over Israel and Palestine.
What’s happening there is abhorrent, but it wasn’t on the ballot. If it’s not on the ballot, it doesn’t matter in that election.
“Refusing to vote for Harris” is a hell of a way to frame it. Why do you think that people owed Harris their vote? If she wants to win, she has to earn her votes, just like every other politician.
As for it not being on the ballot: there were two anti-genocide candidates on my ballot — Jill Stein and Cornel West. Were they not on your ballot?
Voting for a third-party in a 2-party system is worse than not voting at all, because at least refusing to vote didn’t involve the incredible waste of resources that went to the third-party.
And the Green Party is to blame for so much of the state of the world. If just 1 percent of the Florida voters who supported Nader had voted Dem instead, Bush would never have been President. So, so many of the world’s problems can be traced back to the Green Party running an environmentalist ticket against Gore.
And Stein is the worst of all of them. She’s anti-vax, called Clinton more dangerous than Trump, and was pushed online by the Russian government in 2016 specifically to help Trump get elected by splitting the left.
And it’s not like Dems are required to bend the knee. Bernie isn’t aligned with the establishment Dems, but he still gets some stuff done and keeps issues in the national spotlight because he caucuses with them. AOC, Zandami, and more achieve shit because they’re Democrats.
You don’t move America left by throwing away your vote. You do it by voting in the primaries to move Dems left, and voting for the Dems in the general election.