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  • mommykink@lemmy.worldtoProgressive Politics@lemmy.worldNew Phone, Who Dis?
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    27 days ago

    It’s a protest vote because you know without any doubt whatsoever that the third party candidate could not possibly win.

    That’s not what a protest vote means. “Vote for the person you want to” is the foundation of democracy. You cannot subvert that concept and still claim to be pro-Democracy.

    They will surely lose and you will have done nothing to prevent the harm that Trump will certainly bring if elected.

    A well-informed voter would be aware of this and will have decided that support of the third party is worth more than that. As a self-descibred savoir of democracy, you have to respect their choice or recognize yourself as a hypocrite.

    It is literally the same fucking argument every time with you people.

    Ditto. It’s always the same “We love democracy! Unless you don’t support The Party, then your vote doesn’t matter. Vote for us even if you don’t want to because we’ll protect your right to vote (for our party),” coupled with some weird Abrahamic Doomsday scaremongering to keep the rubes in line.


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    27 days ago

    Democracy isn’t the right to vote for the Democratic Party, it’s the right to vote, period. That means you have to defend the rights of people whose beliefs you strongly disagree with. If you actually care about democracy as a concept, you cannot actually defend the statement “People who don’t vote for me party shouldn’t vote.”

    So in the short term, you vote for the harm reduction option

    No, you vote for the candidate that you support. That’s how democracy works. If a person decides for themselves that they’re willing to concede some beliefs for a candidate with better odds of winning, who’s better in the long-run, etc., then that’s fine, too, but they (as in, the voter) have to make that decision on their own.

    spoiler

    If it stings, that means it’s working.


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    27 days ago

    Who ever said anything about a protest vote?

    You do know there are third party supporters who vote for them because they actually support the policies, right? Although I do suppose this is probably an alien concept for someone whose only reason for voting the way they do is because “they’re not the other guy.”

    until I’m blue in the face

    Heh