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I am reminded of two quotes from Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson:
How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?
Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?
How low? Now, I guess we know. Voting for the lesser evil for 50 years has got you Trump. Twice. How much lower are you going to go?
I have no solutions. Things will probably have to break completely before the mending can begin.
7·21 hours agohttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/
Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils
Well that’s a depressing read. The American rot runs deep. It’s frankly disturbing how accurate that article still is.
The writer drops some great lines though.
Thanks.
Man, you really just have to post “I refuse to support genocide” to bring the blue maga naizs out of the woodwork.
It’s very simple: I refuse to support genocide.
After working for the DNC for free for years and most of my calls being right, they can suck my fucking dick never again the amount of fucking consulting fees other people squeezed out of those pricks meanwhile I’m basically unemployable because of my politics, I’m not even a fucking american.
If the electoral system only lets you choose leaders who don’t align with the majority, it’s not a democracy. It’s a dictatorship with extra steps.
Maybe even a
Dictatorship of the bourgeoise
It’s not even generate a candidate that doesn’t support genocide, it’s literally just not stand in the way of or conspire against such a candidate, but naturally the DNC and their controlled opposition functionaries can’t even manage to do the right thing by doing nothing at all.
Mamdani: “Hey, people really seem to resonate with this message and will hand you an easy, landslide win.”
DNC, publicly: “How about you go fuck yourself?”
The left should protest democrats until they put up good candidates
They will gaslight themselves into believing they have the most progressive war criminal ever.
Maybe we don’t deserve a country if we can’t elect a non corrupt person (from either side).
Maybe you deserve a better system
‘Lol but everyone knows midterms and primaries arent important!’
(Proceeds to complain about quality of candidates during the presidential)
‘Lol but everyone knows midterms and primaries arent important!’
You sure beat the shit out of that strawman. If you’d had primaries in 2024, we might not be in this mess.
It’s less that the midterms and primaries aren’t important, and more that the candidates allowed in them are not even passable.
At this point staying home helps Trump. It’s the fucking reason he’s there. Trump votes stayed consistent with 2020 but Dems votes dropped by millions. You saying Harris would be just as bad? This view is pushed by billionaires to help get fascists elected.
Top Democratic officials who worked on the party’s still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has https://web.archive.org/web/20260223002443/https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
Wow, maybe dont run pro-genocide candidates if you want your base to Vote for you? Or do you think the cult-like devotion of the republicans is a positive democrats should follow?
i fear that they tried to suppress it because they planned on trying the same strategy again in 2028.
Then the Democrats shouldn’t run candidates that will cause millions of people to stay home.
Maybe the people wouldn’t stay at home if there was someone worth voting for.
approximately 10 million and the dems still refuses to change their game, but it’ll be worse next time because of epstein and iran… in addition to gaza.
Yeah. That’ll show em!
They will be shown as many times as it takes for you to demand better than blue hitler
Ok. Enjoy your trump then. All of it. All were saying is right the boat first, then fix the problem. Guess hitting the iceberg is an ‘acceptable loss’.
You think genocide of the Other is an acceptable price to pay to delay having to fight fascism. You have rolled over and collaborated with the nazis because resistance is unfathomable to you. You are a nazi collaborator, and no amount of projecting that guilt will change what you signed your name to.
Iike i said: enjoy all your trump then.
Electorally lobotomized
it’s not about retribution, it’s about complicity w genocides; wars for profit; and baby raping/killing/eating.
people are slowly becoming disaffected and now there’s so many who won’t participate that aren’t enough 3rd party voters to make up the difference.
Dont tell me mate. Tell those stupid voters!
they’re not stupid, they’re disaffected and ignoring why they’re disaffected will lead to more people not voting.
And more trump. But somehow its not their problem.
You’re so devoted to genocide that you long ago learned that it’s a losing issue, but refuse to abandon it anyway.
You’re not going to make genocide popular. What we might be able to do is make the DNC run a candidate that people will vote for.
