When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s hear it.
I’m with you penguin. I’ll vote for neoliberalism to fend off fascism, but having to vote for genocide in another country to fend off fascism in America is a bitter pill. Biden has year to make amends though, he may turn it around. But he lost a lot of voters over Gaza.
It all boils down to the voting system. FPTP is as systematically focused on emphasizing the “lesser of two evils” as it gets. We need to change that before we can vote with our hearts.
Also, what do you think Trump would have done about Gaza if he was in office? His recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is part of what made all this inevitable.
Here we see that even if you say you’re going to vote like centrists want, as long as you say anything at all critical of their preferred evil, you still get the “zomg you want trump to win!” treatment.
If you ran a million simulations of our voting system from its beginnings to now, I think the main thing you would see is what we have now, which is an oligarchical duopoly based on the good cop-bad cop routine. I do not view this as a repairable ill by continuing the same game under the same rules.
Centrism does not currently exist in American politics, so I’m not sure what you’re accusing me of. I’m an advocate for systemic change while at the same time not deliberately upsetting the game board in a tantrum, which makes me both a poor centrist and a lackluster radical.
You were in such a blind hurry to drop your “yabbut trump’s worse and if you don’t vote like I want you’re voting for trump” talking point that you completely ignored that the person you were lecturing already said who they were voting for, and that it was in favor of neoliberalism over fascism.
If you’re not a centrist, you’re doing a really good impression of one.
If you didn’t understand my point you should have asked for clarity. I don’t care who they vote for, I’m more interested in talking about the thinking behind the choice. Vote as you may, my point is that we are damned either way until we fix the underlying fault in the system.