The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    First of all you can vote for someone that isn’t red or blue,

    If I wanted to waste time I wouldn’t stand in line to vote…

    In our political system any vote besides R or D means the same as not voting. Thats just reality, it sucks but it is.

    You want to change it? Great, me too. But we do that by being more invested in the current system and electing people willing to improve it.

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      1 year ago

      Its more likely to matter in downticket races, where the total amount of votes is less than the margin for victory in most federal elections.

      Sure, we’re not going to see a third party president any time soon, but its more than feasible in state and local elections. People just tend to ignore them because they’re not as in your face as federal elections. Even though they’re often as important as federal elections.

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        No third party in the US has a workable platform and they don’t even try to make one. They do literally nothing. We can argue back and forth about why they are at a disadvantage or why they have no chance blah blah blah, but it doesn’t take any of that.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t feed on the propaganda. There’s a shitty movie out every month or so who millions go to watch because they get blasted with ads. It really doesn’t take much to teach people to vote for someone that isn’t red and blue. Drop that mindset and tell everyone to vote for someone else