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I'd like to think they're all just Russian trolls but increasingly, I think some people are just selfish or dumb.
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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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Umm...that's the entire way we select leaders. The entire campaign for any office, high or low, is telling people how to vote. That's literally democracy in action.
And it is not wrong to tell people that if they want third party candidates, the path to do so is to start with voting reform. I'm in Oregon, and we're actually making progress on this instead of just bitching about it or running spoiler third party candidates. We have ranked-choice voting on the ballot this year. If it passes, all our state and federal elections will be decided by ranked-choice voting. We'll actually make it viable for progressive third party candidates to run for our US House and Senate seats without just serving as a spoiler for Republicans. We're actually doing something about the two party duopoly.
But you never hear these anti-Kamala trolls suggesting doing something that would actually make a difference. They show up every election, and their platform is ALWAYS "don't vote for the democrat." Doesn't matter what election. Doesn't matter what year. They always find some reason that you shouldn't vote for the Democratic candidate. Their criticisms always attack the Democratic candidate and ignore the Republican.
They're clowns and trolls. Nothing more. They bitch about the two-party duopoly, but they don't actually want to do anything. The truth is they're actually just Republican trolls.
Don't you see how you come across? You think you get to tell other people what to do. But humans don't like it when you try to tell them what to do. Instead of barking orders and calling names, why don't you try to convince people that you have a reasonable position?
I'm not sure what kind of red herring you've been smoking, and I would love to try some, but these people that you think show up every election and insist that we vote against the Democrat but never say anything bad about the Republicans, who exactly are you talking about? Certainly there are some centrist pundits on TV who have ridiculous positions like that, but fortunately I'm not seeing too many comments on this platform of such an absurd nature.