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Americans: Are you going to vote third party or refuse to vote at all? (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I've been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL's de la Cruz or Green's West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most "effective" use of my time in election season this year. The argument for "not" is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes this system, even if a third party candidate getting a record turnout would grab more attention (and piss off Blue MAGA cultists) than simply not going since it's not like abysmal turnouts, even by this country's historical standards, are newsworthy at this point. So I guess I have to ask how you people rationalize voting or not this year?

I fully understand that this is more symbolic than anything else and won't materially affect change for a while but it's still something to think about.

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[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i hope they both die (of old age, calm down fedposting )

or refuse to vote at all

if you're in this camp there might be a city council or school board election you should actually vote in.

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

People talk about local elections a lot but 99% of the time it's like a race populated with five different real estate professionals

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

i'll take the one who isn't a creationist over the ones who are for the school board. that's a case where flavors of liberal actually do matter.

99% sounds like a wild overstatement too. around here more often it's some unopposed county position.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why aren't we running for these seats?

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I'm not paid enough to become a local politico on top of actually working