This bullshit has to end!
Jul. 7th, 2020 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alex_antoninMy response to one of those posts shaming never-Biden voters and third party voters. This is a combo of two different comments:
Thing is, a lot of the people who are "never Biden" were people who were only voting Democrat to begin with because of Bernie. These are people from the far Left who weren't voting for Democrats anyway until Bernie started running as one. There's enough of them that if Bernie announced he was running as an Independant, I'm betting he'd win.
This whole "a vote for someone other than R or D is a vote for the other major party" thing is something they've been doing to manipulate people for decades, and it's why the Democrats are now conservatives and the Republicans are now Far Right. Bernie Sanders is considered a Leftist by US standards, but by the standards of other countries that let their people vote, Bernie is right of center.
I too don't want to see Trump win again, and I am personally going to vote for Biden, but I'm still so fucking tired that the Dem voters in this fucking country have been buying this bullshit for decades. Hate to break it to you, but that "a vote for a third party is a vote for the Republicans" thing is a tactic the two parties have been working on together for decades and following it has resulted in the fascist mess we're in now.
That said, I agree that nobody should vote for Kanye West either. He's no better than Trump, and voting for someone as a joke is how we got Trump in the first place.
I'm voting Biden because Biden is better than Trump. But then, if that's the only metric, which it is for me, I'd vote for a chimpanzee for the same reason.
Like last time, I'm SUPER pissed that the Democratic Presidential nominee stole the nomination from Bernie, especially since Biden is a serial rapist with dementia, but again, just as with Hillary Clinton, I'm still voting for him because fuck Trump.
That said, this bullshit of having to choose between an outright fascist candidate and a crypto-fascist candidate has to end after this election. It's been going on for decades, they've been manipulating us for as long as I've been aware of politics, and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of the two major parties colluding and forcing us to vote in a way that has shifted our political spectrum way off to the right.
I'll vote for Biden this time around, to oust the literal fucking Nazi oompa loompa in the White House right now, but after this I'm not playing this fucking bullshit game anymore. Starting with the next election, I'll vote for whoever the fuck I think is best for the job, and FUCK anyone who tells me otherwise. Because this fucking game has to stop!
Thing is, a lot of the people who are "never Biden" were people who were only voting Democrat to begin with because of Bernie. These are people from the far Left who weren't voting for Democrats anyway until Bernie started running as one. There's enough of them that if Bernie announced he was running as an Independant, I'm betting he'd win.
This whole "a vote for someone other than R or D is a vote for the other major party" thing is something they've been doing to manipulate people for decades, and it's why the Democrats are now conservatives and the Republicans are now Far Right. Bernie Sanders is considered a Leftist by US standards, but by the standards of other countries that let their people vote, Bernie is right of center.
I too don't want to see Trump win again, and I am personally going to vote for Biden, but I'm still so fucking tired that the Dem voters in this fucking country have been buying this bullshit for decades. Hate to break it to you, but that "a vote for a third party is a vote for the Republicans" thing is a tactic the two parties have been working on together for decades and following it has resulted in the fascist mess we're in now.
That said, I agree that nobody should vote for Kanye West either. He's no better than Trump, and voting for someone as a joke is how we got Trump in the first place.
I'm voting Biden because Biden is better than Trump. But then, if that's the only metric, which it is for me, I'd vote for a chimpanzee for the same reason.
Like last time, I'm SUPER pissed that the Democratic Presidential nominee stole the nomination from Bernie, especially since Biden is a serial rapist with dementia, but again, just as with Hillary Clinton, I'm still voting for him because fuck Trump.
That said, this bullshit of having to choose between an outright fascist candidate and a crypto-fascist candidate has to end after this election. It's been going on for decades, they've been manipulating us for as long as I've been aware of politics, and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of the two major parties colluding and forcing us to vote in a way that has shifted our political spectrum way off to the right.
I'll vote for Biden this time around, to oust the literal fucking Nazi oompa loompa in the White House right now, but after this I'm not playing this fucking bullshit game anymore. Starting with the next election, I'll vote for whoever the fuck I think is best for the job, and FUCK anyone who tells me otherwise. Because this fucking game has to stop!