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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's really not, because a lot of left of center voters just won't bother to vote for someone they don't like.

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Then frankly, they are idiots. Any foolish “protest vote” come November is just helping Trump.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

I never said they were rational. I'm saying they matter. Calling them idiots does nothing to keep Trump out of power.

[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Maybe 2024 is the year people realize you can't shame voters to the polls. 2016 should've been the year that lesson was learned, but alas, here we are.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

i'm convinced that there are permanent blind spots that all societies have and this is the american blind spot.

i also wonder if it spells our demise as a society as well.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

The protest vote is the one cast against something, exactly like democrats are gonna do in November,

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

We aren't "protesting" anything. We are safeguarding America's longstanding core values of democracy and the rule of law.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago
[-] btaf45@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

We don't value democracy and the rule of law because they are "cute". We value them because countries that don't have them are a nightmare to live in.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

The party that sues to keep 3rd parties off the ballot, is a private corporation that can select their own candidates, and gives voters no choice but their hand selected candidate is the party of democracy?

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

is a private corporation that can select their own candidates

You want the Republicans and Democrats to be public corporations? The Democratic charter has specified since the 1950's that voters chose the candidates.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

And the DNC argued in court they are a private corporation that is not bound to follow their own bylaws.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nope. A lawyer argued to win his court case that the DNC could legally CHANGE their own bylaws to abolish primaries. Which is technically true. The RNC can also do that due to the lack of government regulation.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago
[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

[DNC attorneys assert that the party has every right to favor one candidate or another, despite their party rules that state otherwise because, after all, they are a private corporation and they can change their rules if they want.]

What part of "they can change their rules if they want" did you not understand? The headline of that propaganda rag is contradictory and wrong. You can tell because it tells a Trumpian lie: "End Rigged Elections". That stuff comes from Putin and Treason Trump.

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

They are voting for Jill Stein and the worm guy anyway.

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