I’m voting for the NOT TRUMP candidate until we fix this broken system and have better options. Couldn’t really stand Biden, but I was supporting the fuck out of that dude if it meant we could avoid the shit show that would be a Trump presidency.
“I never vote for, only against.” – W.C. Fields in a rare serious moment.
Something I take to heart. I will never get a candidate who represents everything I stand for, but there will always be one who represents less of what I stand for than the other.
THIS. Campaign Finance & Election Reform is the most important single-issue in America right now because it impacts quite literally every other problem and the disenfranchisement and frustrations so many Americans feel with the system right ow.
Amidst this 2-Party System, we have no choice but to vote for the lesser-of-two-poor choices.
Between these two parties, only one party has actually advocated for fixing the system.
We need a Constitutional Amendment. It’s the only way.
This movement needs to be grassroots and built state-by-state.
The good news is that there is untapped bipartisan support for said initiative. We just need to ALL keep repeating this, which again, is easy because it can be injected into nearly every single political conversation.
I’m voting for the NOT TRUMP candidate until we fix this broken system and have better options. Couldn’t really stand Biden, but I was supporting the fuck out of that dude if it meant we could avoid the shit show that would be a Trump presidency.
I feel better with Harris, but still not ideal.
“I never vote for, only against.” – W.C. Fields in a rare serious moment.
Something I take to heart. I will never get a candidate who represents everything I stand for, but there will always be one who represents less of what I stand for than the other.
I saw something similar recently along the lines of:
Voting isn’t a love-letter to a candidate; it’s a chess move.
Great quote. Also, love your username. SQL injection vibes.
Edit: Went in search of more info about this quote and thought I’d share what I found:
It’s a summarized version of the writer’s idea/turn of phrase she often brought up in her writing around the 2016 election.
Here’s her November 2016 article from The Nation.
In reality is just results in being @'d regularly in tech-related groupchats when people post error messages.
That’s a great way of looking at it.
THIS. Campaign Finance & Election Reform is the most important single-issue in America right now because it impacts quite literally every other problem and the disenfranchisement and frustrations so many Americans feel with the system right ow.
The good news is that there is untapped bipartisan support for said initiative. We just need to ALL keep repeating this, which again, is easy because it can be injected into nearly every single political conversation.
Longer write-up for those interested.