Activists launched the effort to send a message to Biden, who is not on the ballot, about the urgent need for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Since the Democratic NH primary broke DNC scheduling rules and doesn’t count, I’m ok with this but only if the voting machine follows up by asking if they condemn Hamas and spends an hour lecturing the voter that protesting ethnic cleansing is a vote for Trump.
This is the part that bothers me with the “I won’t vote for Biden cuz genocide” crowd. They get very angry when you ask why they want Trump to be elected and become furious when you ask them to state an alternative.
The problem is that wanting or not wanting Trump isn’t the question. The question is whether you take actions that will make him becoming president inevitable or not.
That’s on the candidate and the party that’s running them. People don’t want to be guilted into endorsing someone who doesn’t represent them.
If the candidate can’t bring people to the poles, don’t blame the people they utterly failed to inspire. They need to change the candidate, or better represent the people.
My actual views on it are that, in the general election, swing state voters should definitely not cast protest votes since Trump would be catastrophic but that anyone in a solidly red or blue state should feel free to cast a protest vote since the electoral college casts “their” vote in the end. I live in Louisiana and it really doesn’t matter if I cast a protest vote for president (though I plan to vote for Biden). My vote is essentially a protest vote against local Trumpitos anyway.
But do vote, regardless. Even if you’re a Palestinian-American who would rather eat a bowl of hair than vote for either candidate, cast a protest vote against ethnic cleansing but please vote in the downballot races and on amendments and other local things. It’s not one election for president. It’s thousands of elections happening across the country.
I also don’t think lecturing people is a way to get out the vote. So don’t take that last paragraph that way. I’m personally very sick of smug centrists responding to disillusioned leftists and minorities with “Trump would be worse so vote harder!” Like, do you think leftists and minorities don’t know about fascists? The lecturing is not helpful.
Since the Democratic NH primary broke DNC scheduling rules and doesn’t count, I’m ok with this but only if the voting machine follows up by asking if they condemn Hamas and spends an hour lecturing the voter that protesting ethnic cleansing is a vote for Trump.
This is the part that bothers me with the “I won’t vote for Biden cuz genocide” crowd. They get very angry when you ask why they want Trump to be elected and become furious when you ask them to state an alternative.
What makes you think they want trump either? The alternative is to have the party run someone that more people will vote for.
The problem is that wanting or not wanting Trump isn’t the question. The question is whether you take actions that will make him becoming president inevitable or not.
That’s on the candidate and the party that’s running them. People don’t want to be guilted into endorsing someone who doesn’t represent them.
If the candidate can’t bring people to the poles, don’t blame the people they utterly failed to inspire. They need to change the candidate, or better represent the people.
It doesn’t sound like you’re ok with this.
My actual views on it are that, in the general election, swing state voters should definitely not cast protest votes since Trump would be catastrophic but that anyone in a solidly red or blue state should feel free to cast a protest vote since the electoral college casts “their” vote in the end. I live in Louisiana and it really doesn’t matter if I cast a protest vote for president (though I plan to vote for Biden). My vote is essentially a protest vote against local Trumpitos anyway.
But do vote, regardless. Even if you’re a Palestinian-American who would rather eat a bowl of hair than vote for either candidate, cast a protest vote against ethnic cleansing but please vote in the downballot races and on amendments and other local things. It’s not one election for president. It’s thousands of elections happening across the country.
I also don’t think lecturing people is a way to get out the vote. So don’t take that last paragraph that way. I’m personally very sick of smug centrists responding to disillusioned leftists and minorities with “Trump would be worse so vote harder!” Like, do you think leftists and minorities don’t know about fascists? The lecturing is not helpful.