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I don’t know why people are so worried, surely all the moderate Republicans you courted by mirroring GOP policy on immigration, the border, the military, aid to Israel, fossil fuels, social services, and the death penalty will be enough to win? I was assured by very confident Dems that they didn’t need my dumb lefty vote to win this election 🤷

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Because I’m sure that LA, in california, is under threat of swinging right if people protest vote too much. I’m sure of it, it just makes sense.

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The people who don’t vote will far out number those who vote for Jill Stein. Why do we let them off the hook when they would have a larger impact on the election.

Don’t get me wrong, Jill Stein sucks, but don’t blame her voters. Blame those who don’t vote to blame those who blindly vote for trump because of “the taxes”

I am tired of blaming someone who gets 2% for when bad things happen. Blame the 30% who did nothing.

I realize a portion of those who don’t vote are due to voter suppression, bring the fire you bring for stein voters to those suppressing votes, it will be a more effective strategy. Stein and her voters are an easy scapegoat.

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I blame both

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Nope, totally blaming Stein voters. They’re idiots, truly stupid, to believe that a protest vote does anything except hurt the major party they’re most aligned with. Stein is a useful idiot, funded by fascists to leech votes from Democrats. She got Trump elected in 2016.

Third parties aren’t a thing under our system. If we were a parliamentary system, sure, but not under our current system, so take your desires for boosting a third party and boost yourself into a lake.

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Blaming Stein voters does nothing to solve any of the underlying issues with our system. She’s a useful idiot for the Republicans and a useful scapegoat for the Democrats. Blindly and simply blaming her and her voters is allowing the status quo as much as voting for her, it’s a short sighted problematic worldview that is a distraction from calling those currently in power to do anything to change the status quo of our system.

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I am tired of blaming someone who gets 2% for when bad things happen. Blame the 30% who did nothing.

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That’s privilege talking. 100% turnout should not be a requirement, when we do not have, at the very least, a national holiday for voting. Voting is not as easy for everyone as it might be for you.

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Agreed. Be mad at the people preventing it.

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Hmm maybe. I agree it should be a national holiday and I agree that the current situation provides far more barriers for some groups than others.

Do I think those things are solely or even primarily responsible for that map? No, I do not.

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Maybe we should be asking Democrats why they aren’t trying harder to satisfy leftist voters instead?

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Exactly!! Great question!

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Because leftist “voters” don’t vote.

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Then Jill Stein shouldn’t have any impact right? Since according to you leftists aren’t voting anyway.

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That’s BS. Extreme leftists are very unreliable voters: no party that actually has a chance at winning anything or running the country can live up to their wishlist agenda. They have a “98% agreement with me means you’re still my enemy” mentality, so the only candidates that appeal to them are the ones that know they won’t win: those are the only folks that can promise rainbows and unicorns all day long, and pass the unrealistic and fatally flawed morality tests that extreme Progressives demand.

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Lemmy really really hates when you frame the question like that. But good on ya, brother. You’re exactly right!

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Let me put it this way: the kind of idiot voting for Stein is not a big enough demographic that they’re worth pissing off everyone else

If they would OTHERWISE vote dem maybe. But you clearly don’t give a shit and never considered that a possibility anyway. The dems will never find a candidate to satisfy everyone, never mind an otherwise irrelevant fringe of socialist college students

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