Yeah that’s what people have been saying since like the 1800s. I forgot who said it or what it was from, but there was a post going around last election with quotes from a bunch of different periods of history with people railing against the two-party system and complaining about how every single election it’s always the same choice between voting for things to stay the same/get a little worse, or get much worse. Every election it’s the same narrative of how this is the most important election’ ever where you have to accept the slightly shitty choice to ‘save democracy’. Going back 200 years. And nothing has been done to change the system no matter how many times the ‘good’ party has been in charge, and the gradual downslide into a fascist shithole has continued regardless of who’s in charge. No matter how many times people have voted in the ‘lesser evil’, y’all are still caught in that bullshit trap. Maybe if a third party had been able to gain some ground in those 200 years things might be different, but people like you claim that voting third party is throwing your vote away just as much as non-voting, so i don’t even know what to say to someone who’s bought in so completely to the fiction that you have any sort of choice in this system. Keep voting and the corporations will keep throwing up shittier and shittier stooges to build the future they want regardless. It’s literally the quote from wargames. The game is rigged and the only winning move is not to play. And also to overthrow your piece of shit government/corporate overlords.
I have voted (early). There were people on the ballot I knew I was not going to vote for, even though they would be considered the lesser of two evils. Luckily, there was a third choice which was a better choice than the main two, so they got my vote.
The people who say just voting for the lesser two evils works, well Trump proved them wrong. At some point there has to be a major change.
The people who say just voting for the lesser two evils works, well Trump proved them wrong. At some point there has to be a major change.
I’m not connecting the dots here. How did voting for the biggest evil ever (Trump) prove that voting for the lesser of two evils doesn’t work? Wouldn’t Kamala winning (“the lesser evil”) and things getting worse prove the point? We’re not in that timeline so nothing was proven other than the obvious-voting for a wealthy rapist conman who bankrupt multiple casinos is not good for the common person.
The line connecting the dots is Joe Biden, or Obama (Obama didn’t campaign on being the lesser of two evils, but that’s basically what he was), or Clinton, or… you get the point. Lesser evil Democrats have repeatedly won elections but failed to consolidate their gains into something that doesn’t just produce more fascism after four or eight years. Because you can’t just win the war; you have to win the peace or you end up losing the next war.
What if the other choice is also driving off a cliff, but further away?
Then that buys time to develop other choices, still better than not voting.
THIS. 1,000%
Yeah that’s what people have been saying since like the 1800s. I forgot who said it or what it was from, but there was a post going around last election with quotes from a bunch of different periods of history with people railing against the two-party system and complaining about how every single election it’s always the same choice between voting for things to stay the same/get a little worse, or get much worse. Every election it’s the same narrative of how this is the most important election’ ever where you have to accept the slightly shitty choice to ‘save democracy’. Going back 200 years. And nothing has been done to change the system no matter how many times the ‘good’ party has been in charge, and the gradual downslide into a fascist shithole has continued regardless of who’s in charge. No matter how many times people have voted in the ‘lesser evil’, y’all are still caught in that bullshit trap. Maybe if a third party had been able to gain some ground in those 200 years things might be different, but people like you claim that voting third party is throwing your vote away just as much as non-voting, so i don’t even know what to say to someone who’s bought in so completely to the fiction that you have any sort of choice in this system. Keep voting and the corporations will keep throwing up shittier and shittier stooges to build the future they want regardless. It’s literally the quote from wargames. The game is rigged and the only winning move is not to play. And also to overthrow your piece of shit government/corporate overlords.
Thank you.
I have voted (early). There were people on the ballot I knew I was not going to vote for, even though they would be considered the lesser of two evils. Luckily, there was a third choice which was a better choice than the main two, so they got my vote.
The people who say just voting for the lesser two evils works, well Trump proved them wrong. At some point there has to be a major change.
I’m not connecting the dots here. How did voting for the biggest evil ever (Trump) prove that voting for the lesser of two evils doesn’t work? Wouldn’t Kamala winning (“the lesser evil”) and things getting worse prove the point? We’re not in that timeline so nothing was proven other than the obvious-voting for a wealthy rapist conman who bankrupt multiple casinos is not good for the common person.
The line connecting the dots is Joe Biden, or Obama (Obama didn’t campaign on being the lesser of two evils, but that’s basically what he was), or Clinton, or… you get the point. Lesser evil Democrats have repeatedly won elections but failed to consolidate their gains into something that doesn’t just produce more fascism after four or eight years. Because you can’t just win the war; you have to win the peace or you end up losing the next war.
appreciate the clarification