…you don’t see the hypocrisy in laughing when it happens to republicans but being angry when it happens to democrats?!
Hypocrisy would require that I had some say in the anti-democratic system that we’re all subjected to, but I don’t, so when anti-democratic shit hurts fascists, I take it as a fortunate side-effect to an otherwise fucked up system.
But why are you so angry about left-leaning third parties then?
I’m not angry about left-leaning third-parties? I just wish more of the third-parties would put in the necessary work in down-ballot local elections. People like Jill Stein just show up in the presidential race to grift and detract from the total number of votes that the Democrats would get. I would encourage third-party candidates to in down-ballot elections, where they can actually win and make a difference. I vote for those candidates when they run in elections I can vote in. But Jill Stein and Cornell West are clearly just grifting in a race they’ll never win, and in doing so will take away some amount of potentially-Democratic voters.
You have every right to vote for whomever you want, but don’t delude yourself into thinking that voting third-party in a US presidential race is anything more than a virtue signal.
Hypocrisy would require that I had some say in the anti-democratic system that we’re all subjected to, but I don’t, so when anti-democratic shit hurts fascists, I take it as a fortunate side-effect to an otherwise fucked up system.
I’m not angry about left-leaning third-parties? I just wish more of the third-parties would put in the necessary work in down-ballot local elections. People like Jill Stein just show up in the presidential race to grift and detract from the total number of votes that the Democrats would get. I would encourage third-party candidates to in down-ballot elections, where they can actually win and make a difference. I vote for those candidates when they run in elections I can vote in. But Jill Stein and Cornell West are clearly just grifting in a race they’ll never win, and in doing so will take away some amount of potentially-Democratic voters.
You have every right to vote for whomever you want, but don’t delude yourself into thinking that voting third-party in a US presidential race is anything more than a virtue signal.
I vote for them in those elections as well.