I hope you’re joking. The privacy of how one votes is foundational. It’s how you feel safe voting against the government in a democracy. The perceived lack of it has been a conservative lying point fighting mail in ballots. This is a worse example. Far worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wasn't joking, just wondering if that it could be true.

I'm from Finland, where even the idea is totally absurd.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, please accept my apologies then.

I’m a Canadian, but we are quite familiar with US civics by nature of neighbourly love and media saturation. We also share an absolute respect for the sanctity of one’s vote, or at least did.

My reaction to your question was to assume you were a US citizen who was under the impression that the threat in the OP - that one’s vote against Trump would be known by the Republican Party - was legitimate. This compounded my anger at the already ludicrous example of fascism and/or authoritarianism in the OP in seeing someone victim to it. Missing the civil basics whose absence is part of why we are in this… situation.

Apologies again for the wrong assumption. The world is terrifying right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

No worries at all. Maybe to begin with I should have said I'm not from the US.

I understand your point and agree with you. There's something going on with the democratic platform in the US, something which should frighten us all.

Top that with everything else going on in the world, it is really terrifying like you said.