Panel 1: As a leftist, you don’t understand how first-past-the-post voting works.
Panel 2: And as a relatively privileged American (white, male, able-bodied, living in a solidly Dem state), you think the consequences can’t affect you.
One of two men will be President on January 21, 2021. You can chart all of the things common wisdom said the current President couldn’t possibly do over the past three and a half years, and project that out for an additional four and a half years of increasingly horrible things he couldn’t possibly do. And you may note how many times he keeps talking about not relinquishing power peacefully, and postulate how that might play out if he is given four more years to entrench himself.
Saying the two options are the same is deeply intellectually dishonest: they are vastly different in massive ways, for hundreds of millions of Americans, and potentially for millions or billions around the world.
What you really mean is “both potential winners are too far to the right for my taste.” That is a statement about your taste, not them.
“My third party candidiate wins” is not a possibility. If you’re gunning for “my third party candidiate gets enough votes to qualify for matching next time, and it doesn’t change the outcome,” at least have the honesty to say so.
But if you just mean “I’m too morally pure to vote for the non-fascist,” I have only unprintable things to say to you.
Panel 1: As a leftist, you don’t understand how first-past-the-post voting works.
Panel 2: And as a relatively privileged American (white, male, able-bodied, living in a solidly Dem state), you think the consequences can’t affect you.
One of two men will be President on January 21, 2021. You can chart all of the things common wisdom said the current President couldn’t possibly do over the past three and a half years, and project that out for an additional four and a half years of increasingly horrible things he couldn’t possibly do. And you may note how many times he keeps talking about not relinquishing power peacefully, and postulate how that might play out if he is given four more years to entrench himself.
Saying the two options are the same is deeply intellectually dishonest: they are vastly different in massive ways, for hundreds of millions of Americans, and potentially for millions or billions around the world.
What you really mean is “both potential winners are too far to the right for my taste.” That is a statement about your taste, not them.
“My third party candidiate wins” is not a possibility. If you’re gunning for “my third party candidiate gets enough votes to qualify for matching next time, and it doesn’t change the outcome,” at least have the honesty to say so.
But if you just mean “I’m too morally pure to vote for the non-fascist,” I have only unprintable things to say to you.