Letters to the Editor: Your ‘protest vote’ for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trump : politics


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All the things you want is only possible with a Harris win. You want a better political system and stuff like ranked choice voting or viable third parties? Only happens with the Democrats in control. Nothing that you want will EVER happen with Republicans in control and a vote for a third party in this election does nothing but help Republicans.

If you’re refusing to hold your nose and vote Harris because of some bs reason like ‘she hasn’t earned my vote’ when the alternative is a demented fascist that supports stuff like monitoring womens’ periods then you deserve all the vote shaming you get.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Let’s say candidate one said “if I win I’ll kill 3 babies,” and candidate two said “if I win I’ll only kill 1 baby”. Then you cast a protest vote for candidate three because “they’re both bad.”

    The problem is, that means you were willing to risk the deaths of 2 extra babies to prove your point, which means you’re actually a worse person than candidate two.

    More will suffer with Trump in charge. So voting third party is just you using others’ pain to prove your own point.

    They’re doing the murdering babies analogy unprompted now.

    Link to comment just in case you think I’m making it up.