…yeah, I’m sure Trump will have your back…

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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t matter if you think Biden “sucks” or not.

    In the US 2-party system where the winner takes all, if you vote for a third party, you may as well vote for Trump.

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      1 year ago

      They send different signals. If Trump wins 55% of the vote, and Biden wins 45% of the vote, Democrats realize they need to compromise on contentious issues (maybe ban abortions federally or let insane people buy more guns etc.)

      If Trump wins 46% of the vote, Biden wins 42% of the vote, and a super-left party wins 12% of the vote, Democrats realize they need to comrpomise less on contentious issues and become more radical to capture that 12%, while not scaring off the 42% of the vote they have. That 42% probably isn’t in favor of genociding Palestinians for example, so that’s something Democrats could concede to the far-left to just gain votes.

      I get the arguments that for that 4 year period fascists won because of the split between Democrats and actual leftists, but to pretend that the two situations I outlined are literally identical is obviously foolish as hell.