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Personally I usually vote. Because I usually have welfare that if I didn’t have I wouldn’t be here much longer. So like for me voting feels life and death.
Even if I don’t see myself getting emancipated by vote. Hence I’m an anarchist. For me it’s more just survival. While 99% my political energy goes into prefiguration/direct action etc.
But I definitely also can understand people who won’t vote for the “less worse candidate”. If the less worse candidate has been bombing your family yeah no. No vote. Obviously.
But I do want to say, unless you philosophically reject all electoralism under the current system which is an arguable position I guess. Unless you do that, do at least vote primaries. That’s where we sometimes get better choices.
Don’t mistake them for emancipation. But it makes a hell of a lot of difference in, for example, many homeless people’s lives if buses are free and social housing is fast tracked and kitchens are well funded and police doesn’t harass for existing. It doesn’t save homeless people. The system put them where they are and the system must be dismantled. But it lets many of them survive a little longer.
Fucking mood. I'm currently fighting with healthcare and SNAP. As if dropping 40 pounds in the past fucking year and a half wasn't enough.
Who does that serve? Murdering someone else's family? Murdering more members of one's own family?
Fuck, man, several million people are already slated for death because the less horrific candidate didn't win the last election in the fucking USA.
Voting isn't a love letter, and if someone thinks their feelings of moral purity are more important than lives of marginalized people, they aren't moral in the least.
Let me put it this way - the SPD, KPD, Zentrum, conservative parties, and the Nazi Party were all intensely homophobic. The SPD was less bad than the rest.
Is letting the Nazi Party win in Weimar Germany, then, a morally acceptable alternative to voting for the SPD, or any of the others, if you're a member of the LGBT community?
If a Ukrainian-American refused to vote for a candidate promising to stop supporting Israel's genocide against Palestine because the candidate didn't pledge any change in support for Ukraine in their struggle against Russian imperialism and genocide, would that be morally acceptable?