I’m just going to explain the idea behind the push to vote uncommitted. The Democratic primary is more or less a show, since the democratic party refused to hold a proper primary. Therefore most ballots are between no-name Democrats, Biden, and the addition of uncommitted to vote for nobody. You, me, Biden, the other candidates, and everyone knows that Biden will get the primary win.
Voting uncommitted sends the signal “I don’t like the values of anyone on the ballot”. This uncommitted campaign acknowledges that Biden will be running against Trump with no real recourse, while telling Biden and the democratic party to shape up and stop supporting genocide. Then in the general we vote to prevent a fascist dictator from taking over and keep up the pressure through community organizing after the election.
The Democratic primary is more or less a show, since the democratic party refused to hold a proper primary.
It’s ‘more or less a show’ because there’s an incumbent running and no politician with any sense or career aspirations is challenging an incumbent president in a primary; not because the Democratic Party decided they were just going to skip the primary this year for funsies. If it was that easy for the DNC to skip out when they wanted to, Hillary would have been crowned without opposition in 2015-2016.
Otherwise, good writeup.
With all due respect to the concept and logic of this- which I understand and respect…
That’s now what everyone is saying. And making a blanket statement that it is- is essentially welcoming bad-faith right-wing propaganda into the fold.
There are ABSOLUTELY people here that are suggesting that people should not vote at all in November. And they’re pretending they’re part of your ideology.
I thought this was a programmer meme at first and was wondering about OP’s sanity…
git checkout Democrats && git rebase Uncommitted
“Remember kids! If you don’t vote, you can save democracy!”
/s
Remember kids! You can’t vote because kids can’t vote! But once you are of age, you will get to save democracy every time you vote by saying yes to the lesser of to evils. The system is perfect and there is no reason to voice any discontent.
For starters…. It’s implied that this is said to kids as a point that WHEN THEY GROW UP…
I really didn’t think it was necessary to have to spell this out, but this is where we are I guess.
you will get to save democracy every time you vote by saying yes to the lesser of to evils
Yes. That how this works. You should understand that you will NEVER get a perfect candidate in an election. That’s politics. Checks and balances. It’s ALWAYS been this way. Everyone votes for the one they like better, with the complete understanding that their candidate is going to have to make tough decisions/sacrifices and do things they disagree with. You want to vote for YOU in an election? Run for President. See how easy it is for yourself to be perfect.
Again… THAT’S how this works.
You are free to think that voting for anything less than perfection is stupid, and even one else is free to call you out on the ignorance of this line of thinking.
AND if you continue to grow and understand that a vote for noncommited during a primary scares you, there is something seriously wrong. Noncommited is saying something here and at an appropriate time. That’s how that works, jack.
If you think I’m talking about people voting in the primary- you need to take a course in reading comprehension.
This is the meme of the thread we are in, yes?Did I say anything about the primaries?
In case you’re not aware, there’s a campaign of propaganda spreading here where people are asking for everyone to NOT vote in November. I’m talking about THEM.
If this bothers you, you’re one of them.
What does what you have to do with the meme? There are campaigns of propaganda out there that say the economy is great, and that you should not question or protest. I’m talking about them.
If that bothers you, you’re one of them.
