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.
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.
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.