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Commenting to emphasize this for the people who weren't paying attention in 2016. If you vote for an alternative to what would normally be your candidate, it's pretty much the same as voting for their competitor. That is, if you vote for a third party alternative to Biden, you're basically voting for Trump (and if you vote for a third party alternative to Trump, assuming he wins the primary, it's like voting for Biden).
If there are no candidates running who you are happy with, but there is a candidate that you think would be especially destructive, you should vote for that candidates main competitor. Otherwise you're contributing to the destructive candidate winning.
I voted for Bernie, and I love him, but I would probably vote for a cunt that I hate in hindsight to avoid Trump if I could go back. Not because I think it's the right thing to do, I just know that so many people won't do the right thing, that my doing the right thing actually becomes an overall negative. Ranked voting is the ultimate choice and would make this whole fucked up system so much better, but since the pieces of shit we call representation will never make that a reality here, the best option is to go with the lesser of two devils that you know the most idiots are going to gravitate to. Bernie should have won, but I know now that was never even possible and wish it had been Clinton.
Yep, I think you're 100 percent right. Counting wasn't my choice in the primary - I wanted someone more progressive and felt she had some other flaws - but I sure as hell voted for her in the general.
It's theoretically possible for a third party or independent candidate to win, but it's so colossally unlikely, we've never really come that close. From the Wikipedia article:
It's really a two party system, so the effort needs to be on getting the right candidate to win the primary. So many people stayed home rather than vote for Clinton that we ended up with Trump.
That sounds like a Biden problem, DNC runs a weak shit candidate that no one wants to run, if he loses they are to blame.
Sure, the dnc is to blame, but we lose
If liberals support the party's chosen candidate thats been forced on them then thats the outcome. It doesnt look like all that talk of 'push him left after the election' worked out so well
We also didn't have the whole government apparatus burnt down by a mental three year old. I know it's not a great choice, but it is a clear one.
Its only a clear choice for those afraid of change, that have a certain level of comfort which the status quo brings them
This is an incredibly privileged take
The privilege are the ones using marginalized communities as human shields to defend their shitty politicians
Go ahead and vote for your third party candidate that passes all your purity tests.
President Trump is the only realistic outcome of voting 3rd party no matter what pipe dream you might want to be real. Just don't act like its not your fault when Trump is President again and you find yourself living under a dictator.
Democrats voting for weak politicians will give us Trump, at this point Biden is a spoiler candidate.
Sigh. You are a lost cause. The only bad thing is that you will spread your delusional takes and help ensure Trump gets a second chance.
The real world will condemn you and others that aid his return to power.
The DNC pushing a shitty candidate that Dems dont want will cause Biden to lose. Then they will blame everyone else for their hubris
Keep working for Trump dude, you are really helping him out bigly.
Democrats are gonna give us trump, then blame Russia or some bullshit. Clinton has already been priming the rabid dogs about Russian interference again. Thats how fascism works, they need a weak liberal party to convince the plebs they are fighting for them while they are colluding with conservatives to keep pushing right.
Ya might wanna get checked for brainworms...
My brother wake up. So many lemmings live in fantasy worlds where they believe that everyone can wake up tomorrow well informed and prepared to do the right thing. That's not reality. We can talk all day about what's the best moral candidate, but it doesn't fucking matter because at the end of the day, people are going to vote between one of two names they've heard before. 99.99% of Americans will never see your reasonings and explanations for why any given person is the best candidate, it doesn't matter how perfect your arguments are or how much evidence you have to back your claims, because you aren't friends with Rupert Murdoch, Mark Thompson, Brian Roberts, or any of the other handful of guys who completely control media information in this country.