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Progressive Group Founded by Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire for California Governor
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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It ain't your job to educate me, but if I can ask anyways, why would one opt to not vote out of principle? I went n' looked it up, yet the only mention of it being a conscious decision are spotty, single sentences. Everything else seems to focus on the socioeconomic difficulties people can experience.
To me, it would seem that voting for a non-mainstream party would be optimal if you don't trust the two-party system, wouldn't it?
I think the American version of first-past-the-post representative democracy in general is an oligarchic form of government that represses actual democracy. Think of how much money you need to win an election and where that money comes from. (I'll give you the answer: you either suck up to billionaires and their lobbyists or you're a billionaire yourself.)
If I cast a vote at all I'm participating in, and implicitly supporting, that broken system.
I don't have a moral obligation to vote for anybody. Or to vote at all.
So the question isn't "why don't I vote third party". The question is "what candidate appeals to me enough for me to participate in a system I have moral objections to". And the answer in 2024 was "none of them".
Besides, parties track the percentage of registered voters who vote and who don't. My absent vote shows up in the statistics as an absent vote. And if the Democrats have any path to reforming themselves it'll start by asking why voter turnout was depressed on the left and why so many people who voted Democrat in 2020 stayed home in 2024.
I can't speak for u/stabby_cicada but i've frequently run into a simple logical fallacy based on the circular reasoning that (not enough people vote for a third party so ) "a third-party will never win." Therefore people refuse to vote third-party.