We don’t hear any kind of students are exited to vote for toddler Trump either.
But I hope the students will vote for Biden as the obvious lesser evil.
I hope so too, but I also hope that the margin is thin as a wire, and ideally, that voter turnout on both sides sets record lows. And I hope it results in better candidates in the future, and maybe a 3rd and 4th party emerging to fill the voter gaps. I don’t think any of this will happen, but it’d be nice.
Low turnout will never steer a party away from the status quo. The only message it sends is that you don’t vote, so there’s no point spending any effort trying to connect with you.
for them = nothing they’ve done is bad enough to lose your vote, so they might as well keep on doing it.
Voting for someone else = voting for Trump, even if it’s 3rd party.
Honestly, I’d like to be able to use my vote to take 1 vote away from a candidate. Just count me as -1 for Trump. Let it send the message that I don’t like any candidate enough to vote for them; the only thing I care about is that it isn’t him.
Yeah if it wasn’t for Trump and Project 2025 literally out there saying they want to end democracy, I would be saying go vote and just leave blank every race where you don’t like any of the candidates. Then it’s public record that you will vote so suddenly your opinion matters. Have to win the state legislatures to get election reform. Then we will see viable third parties at the local level and grow to national.
And I hope it results in better candidates in the future
That won’t happen.
and maybe a 3rd and 4th party emerging to fill the voter gaps.
Only way that happens is if we swap to proportional voting instead of first past the post. As long as it’s a choice between the DNC and GOP neither party is going to let that happen either. Most likely scenario that sees that become a reality is that the GOP finishes imploding and in the confusion and power vacuum left behind enough of a coalition forms to get it passed. Still a long shot though.
We don’t hear any kind of students are exited to vote for toddler Trump either.
But I hope the students will vote for Biden as the obvious lesser evil.
I hope so too, but I also hope that the margin is thin as a wire, and ideally, that voter turnout on both sides sets record lows. And I hope it results in better candidates in the future, and maybe a 3rd and 4th party emerging to fill the voter gaps. I don’t think any of this will happen, but it’d be nice.
Low turnout will never steer a party away from the status quo. The only message it sends is that you don’t vote, so there’s no point spending any effort trying to connect with you.
Yeah, so see, this is the problem.
Honestly, I’d like to be able to use my vote to take 1 vote away from a candidate. Just count me as -1 for Trump. Let it send the message that I don’t like any candidate enough to vote for them; the only thing I care about is that it isn’t him.
Yeah if it wasn’t for Trump and Project 2025 literally out there saying they want to end democracy, I would be saying go vote and just leave blank every race where you don’t like any of the candidates. Then it’s public record that you will vote so suddenly your opinion matters. Have to win the state legislatures to get election reform. Then we will see viable third parties at the local level and grow to national.
That won’t happen.
Only way that happens is if we swap to proportional voting instead of first past the post. As long as it’s a choice between the DNC and GOP neither party is going to let that happen either. Most likely scenario that sees that become a reality is that the GOP finishes imploding and in the confusion and power vacuum left behind enough of a coalition forms to get it passed. Still a long shot though.