If you really believed that then you should be demanding that Biden appeal to more voters. It’s a two-party system as you say, and if it’s “really the most important election of our lives” then you should be doing everything in your power to pressure democrats to appeal to more voters, right? I mean, I guess he is trying to appeal to a certain kind of voter with his border, police, Ukraine, Israel, and neo-liberal policies, but I’m not that voter. I guess he thinks enough voters on the left will still vote for him because orange man bad, and maybe he is right.

But it turns out I’m a single issue voter, and that issue is whether or not you are actively aiding, abetting, covering up, assisting, and committing an ongoing genocide while vilifying, firing, silencing, arresting, and censuring anyone that dares question it. You know, there’s just something about genocide that puts me off a candidate

Hate to break it to you, but your vote does not matter as it is right now

There are a lot of reasons why people in this community would dislike your message. But on the very fundamental level you’re correct, voting for the less reactionary party is better. As you said “it’s a two party system”, but keep in mind that these parties are not two polar opposites that people have to split between. On the contrary, in most regards they’re protecting the same interests, which are never your average American’s. Of the things you mentioned would suffer under Trump here is what democrats did:

• Abortion is illegal in 14 states and limited in many more

• Trans rights are being repealed in multiple states, Florida being the leader in inhumane treatment of genderqueer people

• Slavery is legal for prisoners (13th amendment), and prisons are at their most populated right now

• Child labor protections are being rolled back and now we have tweens working nights in slaughterhouses

• Worker strikes have been discouraged and killed

• After the Uvalde shooting basically nothing was done about gun accessibility or cops’ response model

• Immigration and environmental policies are pretty much carbon copy of Trump’s - more fracking, willow project, title 42 staying on for years, current proposals for metering the border

• White nationalist rallies and general rhetoric are protected under the discrimination laws, yet a house representative gets an official reprimand for voicing her discontent with genocidal actions of Israel

American politics normally have a ratchet effect. GOP moves the country to the right, and stop Dems from any leftwing momentum. But Biden is straight up moving everything to the right himself. So either way you’re voting against the things that you mentioned you care about.

I’ll vote for a rock if it means Romney and the republicans can’t coup the country and remove my voting rights. People joke about Obama, but it’s a two-party system.

Edit: and abortion rights, and same sex marriage rights, and interracial marriage rights, and black voting rights, and women’s voting rights, and slavery laws, and gun laws, and discrimination laws…

Would you look at that, with just two simple substitutions I made your comment vintage 2012! By putting in McCain/Obama, Bush/Kerry, Bush/Gore, or Dole/Clinton, I could make it look like it came from 2008, 2004, 2000, or 1996.

Isn’t it an amazing world we live in?

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