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Evil Ultra trying to split the vote ๐
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Not voting for any candidate because none of them are progressive enough perpetuates the same system. How are you helping by not voting for the lesser evil?
There's always actual progressives on the ballot. It's just too many have fallen for the "lesser evil" brainwashing that they fail to see it. It's no different than the red scare crap we're still trying to kill.
As a lifelong progressive who has voted in every election in the past 26 years, no there are not always actual progressives on the ballot. But your point that we should support them when there is one progressive, even when they cannot hope to win, is also fallacious. Sometimes they could win with our support, and sometimes they could not. Vote accordingly.
Explicitly describing genocide as "not progressive enough"
Politics is a spectrum, and theoretically there is a candidate even for you that would still support genocide and also be progressive enough to earn your vote.
there's always a progressive candidate and you should always vote; just be aware that both the republican and democratic parties are actively perpetuating this system.
I believe you can make the case for either option (lesser evil or third party) and either is definitely better than not voting, but I'm of the view that voting is a negligible part of our political involvement that gets too much attention, organizing is a lot more necessary and effective, otherwise things will never improve
Absolutely this is a critical point. If you want better candidates, create them. Forge them and support them. Attend townhalls and demand answers from candidates. That's the time to shape the race. Once you enter the voting booth, it's far too late to try to fix everything with one choice.
I like the quote from Gandhi, "Whatever you do in life will be insignificant but it is very important that you do it..." I think that applies to voting. One vote may be insignificant, or it may be everything. You won't know, and you may never know for sure. But if you don't vote, it is definitely nothing.