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[–] MarjorineFailureGroan@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (33 children)

I too will vote Harris, but I think it's important to understand that voting out of fear is not going to fix our extremely broken two party system. Voting third party is not a vote for Trump, I think it's often a vote born of a broken two party system.

Despite knowing that I can't bring myself to vote third party out of fear that I may not get another chance to vote if Trump takes power.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

It literally exactly is a vote for trump. We have shown you morons the math a million times by now, you're just being willfully resistant to acknowledging what you're doing to endanger the republic.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Is that based on the assumption third party voters would vote democrat otherwise? If I would either not vote or vote third party, how does my vote help trump?

Maybe the democrats shouldnt count votes they don't have?

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When the options are democracy or dictatorship and you choose not to vote... it's kinda gross. I get that you got a failure of a system over there, but the fight to update your democracy should be done after you choose to have one.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It depends where you live. In my very local area my vote counts, and so it goes to democrats. If you are in a republican state, I can't think of anything better than Democrats coming in third place there. If the democrats had a bigger third party to worry about they'd start having to move left or at least stop moving right to win voters.

[–] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That 3. party better be Election Reform.

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