• @Uniquitous@lemmy.one
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    421 year ago

    Ugh. I’m not real happy about having to vote to uphold the gerontocracy, but as both likely frontrunners are a part thereof, all I can do is vote to minimize the harm.

    • PostmodernPythia
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      61 year ago

      That’s only true if you live in a swing state. If your state’s certain to go one way or the other, vote your conscience, even if it’s a write-in.

      • @Krakatoa@lemmy.film
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        231 year ago

        I would argue the opposite. An increasing minority vote/poll in a “safe” state would pull resources away from swing states to keep the state “safe”. Not many people would have imagined Georgia going blue in federal elections but here we are.

        • PostmodernPythia
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          1 year ago

          If things are bad enough that NY goes red, how I voted is the least of our problems.

          I mean actually red or blue states. Georgia’s dynamics have been moving centerward for years, and people who pay attention to that stuff knew that.

          • @reverendsteveii@beehaw.org
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            21 year ago

            Same with Texas, down to the fact that their attorney general was bragging about preserving republican minority rule by preventing the “wrong” people from voting.

      • Bleu [they/them]
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        141 year ago

        I live in Texas (a state that will go a certain way) and I will vote Dem. It makes no sense to me to help make a bigger gap between the Republicans and everybody else just because the Dems suck too.

        The “principled stance” a protest vote makes only helps embolden the current political hellscape within my own state. If I can chip away at the Republican power structure, I will do it.