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Voting for 3rd party means tacitly supporting the candidate leading in the polls. Trump leads in the polls. A vote for RFK is a vote that Biden could use to beat Trump. Also, calling Biden and Trump "garbage candidates" is reductive and just plain wrong. We saw what Trump did for 4 years, and we've read Project 2025. Biden is the only ethical vote. But go off, king.
no, they are both bad people
then how does biden plan to earn that vote?
this is storytelling
it's unethical to vote for biden... but go off, king
Voting for Biden is not ethical. He's actively supporting genocide. I'm still going to vote for him because he's better than the other bastard, but don't fool yourself into thinking he's innocent.
Rfk is pro israel so go green party in that case.
He's also anti-abortion, anti-vax, anti-pandemic protocols, and completely insane.
Motto of the modern day voting electorate
As long as you're still voting for someone, I'm good with that.
Useless votes. Unless we change how our votes are counted, those votes are no better than not voting, especially if the main goal is to protest to top 2 nominees.
Ask every politician you ever speak to about ranked choice voting.
For the record, I oppose their choice of candidate. I think we’re better off encouraging voting as a whole, than encouraging people to fully give in to the two party system - even if I’m convinced by those arguments and plan to vote for Biden, I know other people have other perspectives and priorities.
On the other hand, we KNOW for sure that people who oppose voting as a whole are Russian bots or completely reprehensible bastards, and that is a very easy sentiment to stand by. We also know that there is one party that wins more often when more people decide to vote. I’ll let you guess which one.
I’d also say for future elections, putting more and more votes on third parties can warn the two parties that a pure message of “At least I’m not HITLER” is not viable enough.
I realise the US uses FPTP, but can someone explain to me why this comment is being downvoted? I'd think participating in the democratic process would be considered a good thing regardless.
It's not as bad as refusing to participate, or voting for the downfall of democracy, but I don't think it crosses into the threshold of "good". Just "useless".
Legitimate question: is there no benefit to voting for a party if they won't win?
Do they get any future election funding or... anything?
If a third party gets at least 5% of the vote, they get a small amount of the official presidential campaign funds.
Despite what most people say, the only want you to vote if you're voting for the person they support.