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Neither, unfortunately, but we have a two-party system, and one side is openly fascist, so I would advise that anyone who doesn't like fascism vote for the other non-fascist (arguably less-fascist) party.
I don't like voting for the "lesser evil" and wish things were better, but voting for unviable candidates out of a sense of blind idealism is worse, because it empowers the most regressive movements to succeed.
We don't currently live in a real democracy, but we have a chance to turn things around. If you decide to give up and let the fascists win, you're one of the bad guys.
We need Ranked Choice Voting and Mixed Member Proportional districting to reduce the need for strategic voting.
Sure, that's obvious to you and me, as seasoned internet users. But we can't expect lawyers and career politicians to understand such things. They must be ignoring it by accident.
did you even comprehend what they said?
If the choice is fascist or less fascist then neither is worth voting for.
Your outcomes are between the candidate who will hurt you and yours less vs the candidate who will hurt you and yours most.
If you're lucky, choosing to not vote will still lead to the candidate that will hurt you and yours less.
Be as pedantic as you want: this is the reality of it.
Do whatever outside of the election season to change that but once the final polls happen, those are the only choices you have.
It's like when you get beat up and you're on the ground. You try to protect your vitals and hope you'll survive to fight another day.
Not voting is idiotic and lazy.
I never said anything about not voting.
The reality is choosing between the two major parties is choosing hurting now or hurting later. Neither will actually do any good. It's pointless to vote for anyone other than a 3rd party, at least then you're not voting for evil.
False.
People will hold a vote to see if everyone gets punched in the face three times or once. Would you not vote for only one punch?
.....because I don't want anyone to get punched? Because I refuse to legitimize a system built on punching people?
Besides I never said anything about not voting.
Honestly there's more punchees than punchers, we can take them.