It’s all just right wing propaganda, convince the population ‘Biden is bad, take your ball and go home’ and you suppress the vote. They can’t institute poll taxes or tests any more, and with vote by mail becoming commonplace they can’t rely on showing up at polling places with guns to suppress turnout.
When more people vote the left wins, and that’s what the right are afraid of, thus the persistent drumbeat of ‘stay home if he’s not good enough’.
It’s crazy a comment like this gets so many upvotes when
Thousands of registered democrats have voted “uncommitted” in primaries around the country. Most notably Michigan.
People are clearly worried about Biden’s chances in 2024 despite his win in 2020. Which means somebody who voted for Biden in 2020 won’t in 2024.
If you shut every one of these conversations down with baseless accusations that 20/20 hindsight is gonna be super awkward when someone asked “Who could have seen this coming??”
Concerned, yes, and made all the more so when there are a sizable number of people willing to throw a vote out to make a point because he’s not flawless and instead let the wolves in while they pretend that their hands are clean.
This is true, but trump is far further to the right than biden. I’ll take losing less over losing more any day even if we can’t have an actually left leaning candidate
You have aided it by voting for Biden in the 2020 primaries and by refusing to hold him accountable during his term to the people who gave him a chance.
Presumptuous gesture there, personally I supported Sanders in both 2016 and 2020 primaries, but failing that I’ll take who has a chance to stop a greater threat over making some protest gesture by writing in someone who has no chance given the realities of the established system.
Another new account was made to comment in another part of this thread to try and argue against voting for an established party because that’ll never get a ranked choice vote. To that one I’ll say similar to above, making some futile gesture by voting for a non-viable candidate will have even less a chance of getting to the better system sought.
And to the other asking for evidence that the ‘genocode Joe’ mantra is likely started as an astroturfing campaign, no I don’t have some specific source, that was the point of saying it has the ‘feel of’. However, if one looks at it for a moment, who benefits by seeking to split the Democratic vote? Who has a noted history of using catchy names to denigrate ‘sleepy Joe’? The #hashtag style of things simply reeks of the kind of campaign one would hire a bunch of bot farms to spit out threads like this one in an effort to create a wedge in the more diverse party that just happens to be a threat to the existence of an oppressive ‘moral centric’ group who seek to impose their world views on the rest of society.
What will you achieve? Like genuinely explain the material change that your vote for a third party will achieve, other than making trump more likely to win.
Hell I’d settle for centerists making material compromises with the left but the mere suggestion that they do so makes them seethe. They’d rather lose to MAGA.
It’s all just right wing propaganda, convince the population ‘Biden is bad, take your ball and go home’ and you suppress the vote. They can’t institute poll taxes or tests any more, and with vote by mail becoming commonplace they can’t rely on showing up at polling places with guns to suppress turnout.
When more people vote the left wins, and that’s what the right are afraid of, thus the persistent drumbeat of ‘stay home if he’s not good enough’.
It’s crazy a comment like this gets so many upvotes when
If you shut every one of these conversations down with baseless accusations that 20/20 hindsight is gonna be super awkward when someone asked “Who could have seen this coming??”
Concerned, yes, and made all the more so when there are a sizable number of people willing to throw a vote out to make a point because he’s not flawless and instead let the wolves in while they pretend that their hands are clean.
You mean he goes around congress to ship weapons to fuel a genocide. Speak plainly.
biden isn’t on the left, so whether he wins or trump, the left does not win.
This is true, but trump is far further to the right than biden. I’ll take losing less over losing more any day even if we can’t have an actually left leaning candidate
I expect to have more options on my ballot
I’d love to see a ranked choice multi party system, but as things stand that’s not the option we have.
I’m sure that voting for a candidate from one of the two dominant parties will lead to ranked choice voting.
I won’t vote for genocide, regardless of the system
Then you will aid it through inaction.
You have aided it by voting for Biden in the 2020 primaries and by refusing to hold him accountable during his term to the people who gave him a chance.
Presumptuous gesture there, personally I supported Sanders in both 2016 and 2020 primaries, but failing that I’ll take who has a chance to stop a greater threat over making some protest gesture by writing in someone who has no chance given the realities of the established system.
Another new account was made to comment in another part of this thread to try and argue against voting for an established party because that’ll never get a ranked choice vote. To that one I’ll say similar to above, making some futile gesture by voting for a non-viable candidate will have even less a chance of getting to the better system sought.
And to the other asking for evidence that the ‘genocode Joe’ mantra is likely started as an astroturfing campaign, no I don’t have some specific source, that was the point of saying it has the ‘feel of’. However, if one looks at it for a moment, who benefits by seeking to split the Democratic vote? Who has a noted history of using catchy names to denigrate ‘sleepy Joe’? The #hashtag style of things simply reeks of the kind of campaign one would hire a bunch of bot farms to spit out threads like this one in an effort to create a wedge in the more diverse party that just happens to be a threat to the existence of an oppressive ‘moral centric’ group who seek to impose their world views on the rest of society.
I’ll be voting against trump
What will you achieve? Like genuinely explain the material change that your vote for a third party will achieve, other than making trump more likely to win.
Hell I’d settle for centerists making material compromises with the left but the mere suggestion that they do so makes them seethe. They’d rather lose to MAGA.