Peter Link to NewsEnglish • 9 hours agoUncommitted movement: Trump remains biggest threat, not Democratswww.middleeasteye.netexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down13 cross-posted to: politics[email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•9 hours ago“But within the context of our broken electoral college system, we know that voting a third party is ultimately inadvertently supporting Trump" I honestly didn’t expect rational pragmatism from them. This is a good sign.
minus-square@Cosmonauticuslink5•4 hours agoWhy? Their complaints and protests are completely valid and done in an informed and determined manner. They know Trump would be worse for Palestinians but that doesn’t give Democrats a free pass to be a little less shitty
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•5 hours agoRepublicans make the inverse argument, with the same basic logic. There are plenty of good reason to vote for Harris over Trump. That isn’t one of them. I could argue that within our broken electoral college system, the only rational vote is 3rd party or not at all.
“But within the context of our broken electoral college system, we know that voting a third party is ultimately inadvertently supporting Trump"
I honestly didn’t expect rational pragmatism from them. This is a good sign.
Why? Their complaints and protests are completely valid and done in an informed and determined manner. They know Trump would be worse for Palestinians but that doesn’t give Democrats a free pass to be a little less shitty
Republicans make the inverse argument, with the same basic logic.
There are plenty of good reason to vote for Harris over Trump. That isn’t one of them.
I could argue that within our broken electoral college system, the only rational vote is 3rd party or not at all.