Linkandluke
Here’s a response assuming you’re question was in good faith. I follow lots of news stories from multiple sources and I count lemmy as one of those sources. This was my first time hearing this. This is part of my process to stay informed. If OP had not posted this, I may not have known. Hope this helps!
At this point, I think any vote toward Trump’s main opposition is the correct vote. Anything else is, to use your word, foolish if you don’t want fascism.
Meaning voting third party (or not voting) because your candidate isn’t progressive/moderate/anything enough, is as good as voting for Trump.
Yeah. I know a few people in my red state, who didn’t love Trump after his last year or so and were on the fence if they were going to vote for him or just sit 2020 out.
When Harris was selected for vp… all a sudden it was the narrative of Biden might get sick or die and her become president. Which way unacceptable. Once that narrative took hold and swayed voters, they pushed it further to Biden was a puppet to her… then they pushed it to he was going to step down day 1 to give her presidency.
It was dreadful.
Would you agree for the same logic for Republicans.
By voting a progressive leader, we would be ignoring the voices and pleas of those who have been suffering under the established Democrat leadership? Is this selfish?
What about of the roles were reversed? What if we had a progressive leader for the last 4 years and the moderates wanted Biden now. Would we be ignoring the voices and pleas of the moderates to keep our current progressive in? Is this also selfish?
I understand there are arguments to be made about it being foolish. I don’t agree but I could understand the arguments.
My question is how is it selfish? There are infinite reasons why it’s not selfish. For example, maybe you like moderates. Maybe you didn’t want trump to win and you thought he was the best candidate. Maybe you like that he likes ice cream. Maybe you closed your eyes and picked randomly. None of these are selfish reasons. I struggle to think of a selfish reason to vote Biden, unless you are Biden voting for yourself.