And I’m being serious. I feel like there might be an argument there, I just don’t understand it. Can someone please “steelman” that argument for me?

  • it_a_me@literature.cafe
    146·
    12 days ago
    1. Due to the failings of the electoral college system, my state was almost guarenteed to vote the same way as it has for the last 30 years
    2. I did not strongly agree with either party/candidate
    3. I dispise the current two party system that both major parties are incentivized to maintain
    4. Voting for a third party who is incentivised to push for change via ranked voting and other methods does aid them even if they don’t win

    If my state was likely to be contested, I may have voted differently. Voting for a third party in my case however had a greater impact than fighting or joining the tide of my state

    • HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca
      181·
      12 days ago

      Voting third party is fine. Protest voting is acceptable, though this result still fucking sucks. Strategic voting doesn’t have to be the default choice.

      Anybody that did NOT vote, thinking it would be any sort of protest, is completely idiotic. Self imposed disenfranchisement only forfeits your own ability to say anything about the results.