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lesser of two evils
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I don't get this meme.
Do both, vote for the lesser evil and demand change by protesting. Those are not mutually exclusive concepts. You are definitely not going to get change by not voting, all you are doing is allowing the more evil to win and prevent you from protesting ever again.
There are two arguments I personally find persuasive. First, are you okay with having voted for a candidate that knowingly supported a genocide with words and with weapons (because it looks more and more like this is / will be the case). Second, what other leverage do you have over the Democratic party. Let them know that they can not win with such a historically shitty candidate, lick your wounds and try again next election.
And if you think Trump is literally Hitler, please do some research and look up what happened after Germany voted for the lesser of two evils (Hindenburg).
Voting is but one of many political actions you can take, and is therefore better considered as a small part of a larger political strategy. The best strategy for a leftist in this election is to vote uncommitted in the primaries and for Biden in the general - to send a message to the Dems while also staving off a more rapid decline to neofascism - while spending most of your time and energy engaging in direct action (i.e. protests).
If I were in Germany in 1932 I would probably have voted for Ernst Thälmann, but the German electoral system is not the US electoral system. We have no 3rd option, and that is not something that can be addressed either by voting or abstaining. To address this will require direct action.
I am NOT ok with Biden. I'm going to vote for him anyway, because in the next term he will be less bad for Gaza than Trump would be. Even taking into account Biden's current genocide.
you are a shelter of sanity in a sea of cultists.
Biden makes Trump the VP and dies a year later? I don't get how that applies.
That’s the point, it doesn’t.
Well that is kinda what the post is about. You can do both, the meme says don't JUST vote.
The far-left absolutely makes sense, without suspending reality. You must be thinking of the right wing.
You misspelled "that's why I'm giving my vote to trump" ( that's what not voting does)
Actually not voting is a vote for Biden, because I was going to vote Uncommitted, which I've been told was a vote for Trump
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Hannah Arendt
Sadly this doesn't take into account a two party voting system, and is completely wrong. They know they chose evil.
The weakness is Americans sitting on their ass, never peotesting.
Sorry if I don’t trust a keyboard warrior over one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
Nobody asked for "trust". Just try to take a second to understand what the two party system is or even how the german system works. Keep cherry-picking info like you live in nazi germany, that just makes it easy to see you have no idea what you're talking about and are repeating popular (trash) arguments lmao
Did you just try to insult me for being on lemmy.. on lemmy?
You have no way of knowing who I am or what I have published, you're just making stuff up cherry-picking info that "makes sense to you".
Two things. Influential does not necessarily mean correct. Second, your use of it is not correct regardless. While I would agree with her in general. Your depiction of the situation is a bit of a hyperbolic caricature. And not the reality of the situation.
We would all, myself included, do well to remember not to alienate those with whom we actually agree a lot with. Change comes with building coalitions and gaining allies. Not virtue signaling, or pyrrhic dogmatic victories.
So people need to accept the protest votes here in the primary. But those protest voting now need to be ready to do everything they can to make sure trump and the Republicans don't win come November. Because anyone who feels virtue signaling is worth more than the extra suffering Republicans absolutely will cause. Isn't much better than the Republicans themselves. As an unattributed philosopher once said. All it takes for evil to triumph is for a good men to do nothing.