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Except that the lesser evil takes your vote as explicit support of everything they're doing, and will claim it as a clear mandate, we'd like to stop but our hands are tied the voters wanted this.
What choice?
Choosing between ketchup or mustard on your shit sandwich does you no good, if you don't want a shit sandwich in the first place.
If you're not giving me a no-shit-sandwich option, why the hell should I reward you with my support?
Then you’re choosing to allow others to decide for you.
No matter how you look at it- you’re making a decision on who runs America- and your choices are:
Democracy, or End Of Democracy.
Vote to pick one, or don’t vote and one is picked for you. Either way- “neither” isn’t an option.
Yeah that is another way. The wrong one.
It might be incorrect, because they don't know your motives, but that's the whole point of voting - showing your motives. In a voting democracy abstinence is begrudging consent to either candidate. The two party system forces this reality.
George Carlin doesn’t vote
George Carlin is dead, and I would probably laugh my ass off at the jokes he would make if he knew people were treating him like some kind of prophet.
Well said!
ROFL. Invoking a long dead COMEDIAN to illustrate a very current and very serious issue.
If that’s not a perfect example of a schoolyard gotcha!
I don’t know what is.
100k people just voted uncommitted against Biden in the Michigan primary, I think they are getting the message