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I mean, if a Hitler clone showed up and started running for president, and my only other option was "not Hitler", that's pretty much all I need to know.
Yeah, but you've just watched three years of 'Not Hitler' doing jack shit to stop Hitler Clone, so I don't really share your optimism or enthusiasm.
In fact, by doing nothing about the rapid acceleration of housing scarcity and the increase in cost of living, Not Hitler has made it much, much easier for Hitler Clone to get elected.
"Not Hitler made it easier for Hitler Clone to get elected, that's why I'm voting for Hitler Clone!"
Okay then.
There's two ways out of this situation:
A complete denial of Republicans Far Right bullshit until they put up palatable candidates, at which point you can hold Dems accountable without risking full blown fascism.
Burn the whole thing down and hope there's something to recover from the ashes.
I'm not voting for Hitler Clone.
I'm voting third party.
You're just rationalizing your vote to help usher in fascism, and that's perfectly fine. I guess it'll take another 40 years of watching the nation regress before you realize that, maybe, the lesser evil isn't as lesser as you think it is.
The Dems aren't great, but I'll take 40 years of regression over near instant fascism, the end of democracy and a series of genocides against trans people, sexual degenerates, socialists, and the racial minorities that are supposedly polluting white bloodlines in a heartbeat.
Grow the fuck up, and stop risking democracy and lives for the sake of your virtue signalling - the ballot box isn't the place for activism - you've got 1,459 other days per elective cycle for that.
You know what you get if you vote third-party? Fucking murdered by the fascists.
Ah, the way Hitler Clone got elected the first time! I'm sure the results will be better the 2nd time...
So, you're saying we could have 40 years in which we could fucking do something like raise awareness, protests, and the like, or we could let Hitler Clone gain power now and hope it burns everything down quickly and we're able to rebuild from the ashes.
Not at all.
You all were so cocky, arrogant, and self-assured of victory in 2016 that you were making reaction videos the night before as if Hillary had already won.
You didn't start blaming us until 10:00PM on election night when you realized maybe, just maybe, you should have cared more about workers and the middle class.
And now history is repeating itself. Can't expect workers to back you if they can't afford to miss a day of work, which coincidentally, is why I vote third party.
That's actually factually untrue.
If a third party receives a certain percentage of the vote, they qualify for public funding.
My vote serves a purpose even if it doesn't elect the candidate the wealthy want elected.
That third party bullshit is why Trump was elected in the first place. We're not in a time or area where we should be putting our votes in a third party. The country and our constitution is in danger, get the vote in for the people who aren't fascists and then we can work on reforming the voting systems to allow more parties to have an actual shot at offices.
Spoken as someone who felt third party was the way to go in 2016 and deeply regrets allowing bad shit to happen to my country