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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

No, you should band together and grind the system that only presents evil options to a halt.

[–] Darorad 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That is something you do outside of electoral politics. You will not achieve that by not voting for the lesser evil.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Voting for the lesser evil can enable this strategy to be more effective. Is it easier to organize against the system in the streets today or in a future where the military enforces the president's whims via emergency powers? I think the answer is fairly obvious.

Lesser evil voting is a rational response to a broken system, but it also isn't mutually exclusive with fighting against that system in other ways. And I believe it's even synergistic in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Very altruistic and yet completely unrealistic.

Be real.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

No you do both. Voting is the hedge if the "tear down the system" plan doesn't work. It hasn't worked here for 250+ years and a civil war, but it is because of voting and labor action and protests we have made any progress.