The issue is that people fundamentally don’t understand what power they actually have in this election. People are tired of a two-party dichotomy, and that is understandable, but the assignment in three weeks is to decide between Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. One of those two people will become president for the next 4 years. There are no alternatives, even if there are technically other parties on the ballot, if you are actually hoping to influence the results of the election in your favor, you absolutely need to choose between one of the two ruling parties.
A growing number of leftists have decided that, even in the absence of any election reform that would actually break the two-party system, they want to protest against it, either by voting for inviable third party spoilers, or not voting at all.
All I can see is that people are either so stupid, they don’t understand the assignment, or they are so stupid they can’t figure out whether Trump or Harris is the lesser evil. Either way, anyone vocally demanding that people don’t for Harris is either stupid (if they consider themselves on the left), or evil (if they are actually rooting for Trump).
Yeah, what would even a 0.5% likely landslide victory for the left look like? 10% of the votes? 12%? All of them taken from Harris. Effect: Trump win, bad times for everyone not a reactionary white man.
People who advocate for that are either Russians, dumb, or desperate.
No, leftists want to apply pressure on the candidate most likely to listen to them, to stop supporting a genocide. And then liberals try to undermine that pressure by doing the same old song and dance they always do that has consistently pushed worldwide rhetoric to the right. And then they somehow can’t fathom why this irritates people.
The issue is that people fundamentally don’t understand what power they actually have in this election. People are tired of a two-party dichotomy, and that is understandable, but the assignment in three weeks is to decide between Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. One of those two people will become president for the next 4 years. There are no alternatives, even if there are technically other parties on the ballot, if you are actually hoping to influence the results of the election in your favor, you absolutely need to choose between one of the two ruling parties.
A growing number of leftists have decided that, even in the absence of any election reform that would actually break the two-party system, they want to protest against it, either by voting for inviable third party spoilers, or not voting at all.
All I can see is that people are either so stupid, they don’t understand the assignment, or they are so stupid they can’t figure out whether Trump or Harris is the lesser evil. Either way, anyone vocally demanding that people don’t for Harris is either stupid (if they consider themselves on the left), or evil (if they are actually rooting for Trump).
Yeah, what would even a 0.5% likely landslide victory for the left look like? 10% of the votes? 12%? All of them taken from Harris. Effect: Trump win, bad times for everyone not a reactionary white man.
People who advocate for that are either Russians, dumb, or desperate.
No, leftists want to apply pressure on the candidate most likely to listen to them, to stop supporting a genocide. And then liberals try to undermine that pressure by doing the same old song and dance they always do that has consistently pushed worldwide rhetoric to the right. And then they somehow can’t fathom why this irritates people.