• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    If you live in a state that has even a slight chance to go red, yes, you should vote for Kamala. But if you live in a comfortably Blue or Red state, you should vote for the party that best reflects your ideology. I always vote for the farthest left candidate because I think that if my representatives see a strong third-party showing for a left-wing ideology, it will make them think twice before they pivot to the center.

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      21 days ago

      If you live in a state that has even a slight chance to go red

      You can only know that with accurate polling, and accurate polling doesn’t exist. As long as we have a two party system, the electoral college, and no ranked-choice voting, voting for the “lesser evil” is the only sane choice. It sucks, but the choice really is binary. A third party vote is a discarded vote, but if you insist on discarding that vote, at least take the time to vote pragmatically down the rest of the ticket…

      I think that if my representatives see a strong third-party showing for a left-wing ideology, it will make them think twice before they pivot to the center.

      lol, and I cannot stress this enough, lmao.