As opposed to letting the Democrats put their finger on the scale by letting them in office to amplify the inequalities we have now. As it stands, you offer the Democratic party absolutely no reason to offer progressive policies, because they don’t need to appeal to the leftist demographic at all.

Thanks to your strategic voting, the best strategy for the Democrats is to be just left of the republicans. The further right the republicans go, the further right the Democrats need to go to pull votes from the other side, because they can already count on your vote. Who cares if a politician voted to protect ICE, as long as they have a D next to their name? That’s bad, we should discourage that, but we should keep voting for them!

In 2038, when the Democrat candidate is even more rightwing than Trump is now, are you going to earnestly argue in favor of voting for them because their opponent is even worse? Don’t you want to avoid an eventuality where you end up fighting for a rightwing president? Don’t let the Democrats treat your vote as a given.

I also made this argument in '24, and then I considered the fact that electing a democrat did exactly Jack Fucking Shit besides ensure a republican victory in '24. Can you think of anything that Biden did to mitigate any of the damage Trump has caused? Because as of now, the only person getting in the way of Trump’s plans is Trump

Not voting for dems is how you signal that they need to change. If they keep getting elected no matter what they actually do, then why on earth would they listen to the people telling them to change?

You have a point. Maybe it’s time we actually put some effort into getting a different party in office, since both the dems and repubs hate us

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