Edited to be slightly more fair to people complaining that they don’t think genocide is good just fine

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The Republican voter says “that’s okay, I’ll have the supreme pizza because it’s pretty close”. So the single issue Republican voter gets pizza and the Republican candidate gets elected.

compromise with a middle ground is literally the opposite of single issue and it’s insane that you’re still trying to pretend it isn’t

single issue isn’t “ham is kind of like pepperoni”

single issue is “pepperoni or i don’t eat pizza”

republican voters only want pepperoni

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I think we’re very close, I now have hope we can get on the same page with this at least.

There are two types of single issue voters. We’ll call them type 1 and type 2. We call them single issue voters because it is a single issue driving their voting choice.

Type 1 single issue voters care a lot about an issue. So they vote for which ever candidate is closest to their view on that issue. They compromise on that issue and their other views to vote for whoever is closest. These single issue voters help their candidate win.

Type 2 single issue voters also care a lot about one issue. Except if a candidate disagrees with their view even a little bit, they refuse to vote for the candidate. Even if the voter and the candidate agree on nearly everything else, this single issue prevents the voter from casting a vote for the candidate. These single issue voters help the candidates opponent to win.

A lot of Republican voters are type 1 single issue voter.s

A lot of progressives are type 2 single issue voters.

An example (or a strawman if you prefer):

I’m a type 1 single issue voter. I disagree with Joe Biden on many issues, but I vote for him because he’s closest to my views on climate change. So I vote for Joe Biden in support of my goals for climate change. I am helping Joe Biden win. (I’m not really a single issue voter, but this is a strawman)

You are a type 2 single issue voter. You oppose The Genocide™, so you are abstaining from voting (or maybe voting 3rd party because the 3rd party candidates have never had to decide whether or not to support The Genocide™). Because we have a first past the post voting system, and you were a potential vote for Biden, you are helping Trump win.

I don’t know if you would vote for Biden if Israel hadn’t invaded Gaza, but I think you get the point . It is after all a simplified example intended to quickly convey a point.

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They compromise on that issue and their other views to vote for whoever is closest.

so hypothetically, you think single-issue gun control republicans are willing to compromise on gun control?

or a strawman if you prefer

literally not even the part you were strawmanning and you very obviously know that

you mysteriously dropped that half of your argument idk why

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so hypothetically, you think single-issue gun control republicans are willing to compromise on gun control?

Exactly, I think you got it. A single issue gun control voter wants less gun control. Say they want to be able to own fully automatic rifles. Trump doesn’t want people owning fully automatic rifles, he doesn’t even want bump stocks to be legal. Trump however is more lenient on other aspects of gun control, certainly more lenient than Biden. They may agree more with Biden on immigration, or abortion, or taxes, but they agree most with Trump on the other issues so they vote for Trump.

So we have one type of single issue voter that is good for Republicans, and one type of single issue voter that is bad for Democrats.

you mysteriously dropped that half of your argument idk why

We’ll figure out the other parts of the argument once we have this simple thing settled.

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