
Originally Posted by
Louisa Bannon
You folks make these ludicrous statements as if they were in any way legitimate, and of course, they aren't.
Hypothetical: someone chooses not to vote for president at all. That person is not helping nor hurting either side, that person is simply abstaining from making a choice that is either too difficult or too trivial to them. In effect, it's like saying, "I don't care, let others decide this question."
I am very nearly there, but I will probably actually bother myself to vote third party in the hopes of giving them a boost for the future. For example, the Greens will have a candidate by mid summer or thereabouts and I'll probably vote for that candidate.
Yes, I don't care who wins between Trump or Biden. Sure, you can decide for me. I don't care about that either.
Dems don't get my vote because they don't want to earn it and I am not giving it away. I can choose to throw it away, or simply give that vote to someone else for literally any reason I choose.
I despise Biden in the exact same way I despise the Clintons, McConnell, Schumer, Graham, Pelosi, Emanuel, etc. All of them are career politician assholes: greedy, for sale, and corrupt as hell. I should probably make this even clearer, I don't actually like too many Democrats at this moment - they moved too far to the right for me. I'm not calling the two major parties GOP and GOP-Lite for nothing - I have real animosity toward both and need to be pointedly motivated to vote for anyone in the Dems circle. And I am not motivated. Every day I am shocked and annoyed by the corruption of both of our right-wing parties.
Some of you say that I should vote for the least evil of these choices, but I have tried to explain how I really don't see it that way.
For example, this absurd feint to Medicare for All / Public Option if the budget allows or whatever other obstacles Biden will eventually attach to its certain and eventually demise. I mean, y'all are kidding, right? Not only was I not born yesterday, but these exact same assholes have been playing Democrats that way for decades. So no, I don't believe it nor should anyone else.
And nobody gets the vote just as a matter of course, as if I owed it to them, or because where else am I going to with that vote, or whatever.
The answer is no.