Voting third party is telling the system that you don't have a preference between the two candidates who have even the slightest chance of winning. It sucks that there's such constrained communication one can do (and we need a better voting system), but in the short term, the three options I've listed are what you have the options to communicate.
The cool thing about independent thought is I dont have to ascribe the same value judgement or perspective as the DNC. Im able to vote closer to my principles by choosing a socialist candidate every time the DNC nominees move toward the right.
Bad faith lemmings will paint that as not caring about the outcome, but I can sleep at night knowing that when offered a choice between slow descent to fascism and rapid descent to fascism, I chose no fascism.
Dont care may be not voting at all, not automatically applicable to people who vote for the candidates libs dont like.
Voting third party is telling the system that you don't have a preference between the two candidates who have even the slightest chance of winning. It sucks that there's such constrained communication one can do (and we need a better voting system), but in the short term, the three options I've listed are what you have the options to communicate.
The cool thing about independent thought is I dont have to ascribe the same value judgement or perspective as the DNC. Im able to vote closer to my principles by choosing a socialist candidate every time the DNC nominees move toward the right.
Bad faith lemmings will paint that as not caring about the outcome, but I can sleep at night knowing that when offered a choice between slow descent to fascism and rapid descent to fascism, I chose no fascism.