The Democrats having practically negative effectiveness is still infinitely more effective.
Obviously voting for dems isn’t going to produce the fundamental changes we need, neither is voting third party or not voting.
Dems will at best slightly slow our descent into fascism. That gives us slightly more time to build dual power and engage in direct action.
We’re far behind, and need every second of time we can squeeze in.
Say the orphan crushing machine crushes 100 orphans an hour.
Influencing the orphan crushing machine does not impact your ability to try to destroy the orphan crushing machine.
You can influence the orphan crushing machine towards crushing 99 orphans an hour.
In what possible scenario should I not take that action. It doesn’t stop the orphan crushing machine, but if it takes us a year to destroy the orphan crushing machine, that’s 8,700 orphans we saved from getting crushed.
Please explain how
I voted to make the system get worse slightly slower while I work on non-electoral direct action
Is worse than
I abstained from an action that could make the system get worse slightly slower while I work on non-electoral direct action
Even if both evils are equal, they are the same. You chose to take an action that’s at best the same as the other option.
Are you suggesting that a feeling of moral superiority while things get worse isn’t a better solution???
Yes, what shade of grey is closest to green is unclear, but there are only two shades of grey that can win. I’d be ecstatic about dumping my shade of grey if anybody could explain how it would bring us closer to green.
That is something you do outside of electoral politics. You will not achieve that by not voting for the lesser evil.
No, you should vote for a different lesser evil that they prefer even though it will be even less effective
we have numbers…
6,835,903 people voted in pa in 2020 6,950,214 people votes in pa this year, and we’re not done counting yet
People turned out in most swing states, they didn’t in safe states
People not turning out is not the same as votes “suspiciously missing”
That’s a big part of it, but not all.
We’ve seen a global backlash against the party in power, in that context Harris refusing to distance herself from Biden absolutely contributed.
Yeah, except this time Democrats suppressed their own turnout
Even if every single 3rd party voter went to her, she still loses
Honestly, it doesn’t matter, even if every single 3rd party voter went for Harris, Trump still wins
Voting lets us pick a weaker enemy.