politics

"I can't morally support the lesser of 2 evils"

Yes you can. Not voting/third party voting helps the Republican party. This is a mathematical fact. Every single person who doesn't vote for Joe Biden and could is supporting Donald Trump. If you're an eligible voter you can only influence the election in one of two directions. There is no "sitting out" option. It does not exist. Not voting does not remove your influence on the results, it simply lessens the impact.

Biden is not my first choice by any means, but this is the reality of the situation. If you think it could be fixed by electing Republicans to power I would be very interested in hearing how the fuck that would work.

There's a lot of stupid people in these interviews:

“I can’t vote for Trump. He’s a crook. He’s too corrupt,” said Scott Simeone, 64, an independent voter from Amherst, who backed Trump in 2016 and 2020. “I voted for him, and I didn’t realize he’s as corrupt as he is.”

You voted for him in 2016 I might grant ignorance then, but in 2020?

Then there's democrats on the other side turning up their noses at the idea of voting for Biden as the lesser of two evils. This is an existential fight for democracy and people are getting persnickety with fascism at the gates?

Given the choice, GOP primary voters will overwhelmingly choose the bigoted dumbass who has never won the national popular vote, and they'll be confounded when he loses it again a third time.

Almost like being an arrogant stupid loudmouth chode is unpopular? No way to know.

Is it jail? Should definitely be jail.

Don’t get lazy. Get out the vote.

“I can’t vote for Trump. He’s a crook. He’s too corrupt,”

I heard the same from Republicans the last two times. Each time, they lined up and voted Trump.

Well, he has two big problems ahead. The bigger one than this is we already held this election and he lost.

Hope for the best and stay vigilant

Way too many polls have Even ods or Trump winning. We need people to get out there and vote like their lives depend upon it.

Nevermind the difficulty of running things from prison.

If 8% of his former voters have gone never trump that sinks him in pretty much every swing state. Some of these were decided by just a few thousand votes in the past two elections, and 1% margins or less.

Good for these voters.

Trump is a symptom of the disease that will never die. We all have to keep fighting, voting, discussing. Late stage capitalism will attempt to silence us all.

The quote makes it sound like the Amherst voter is comfortable voting for some amount of corruption, just not too much.

Thank god there are still sane Republicans. I know MAGATs are the loud minority of their party, but it is disheartening seeing some of the "real" Republicans being ok with voting for someone who literally said they will be a dictator. Not to mention the fact that trump has also been using nazi talking points.

Disclaimer: I am not Republican nor do I agree with their "policies", but I know people who vote R just because the politicians pretend to present Christian values and fight for small businesses.

We have to hope that enough of the left will suck it up and vote for Biden. I get it guys, he's got a lot of issues. I don't particularly like him, but if we want our country to continue being more-or-less free, we don't have a choice. It's that or prepare for a civil war, and I know I don't particularly want to die on the mason-dixon line