claim 1: “voting doesn’t change anything”
Never forget the recent case of Kris Mayes, who refuses to uphold the Arizona supreme court’s sweeping ban of abortion.
Kris Mayes only won her 2022 election by 280 votes. Voting changes things.
claim 2: “but genocide joe”
Yep. Hold that fucker’s feet to the fire. He has blood on his hands
But trump has promised to be indisputably worse. I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote. You’re not radical for ditching the only miniscule right the state has granted you to do some small aid for your neighbors.
I guess the way I model it in my head has layers.
The base layer 1 is just that voting is to be taken seriously. Women and people of color have lived and died for this right and it shouldn’t be flaunted as extraneous in the face of that effort. Human rights have been preserved by recent voting, and that reality should not be scorned. This is a core belief and principle I have when it comes to voting.
On an altogether different layer 2, yeah sure I guess personally I fear the damage that vote splitting can have? But I recognize that this is a layer that has a lot more nuance than the first. For example, it highly depends on if it’s general vs primary, local vs state vs federal, whether you are in a swing state or not, whether your state has RCV, etc. While I have concerns, being anti-third-party is not a deeply held belief I have in comparison to the first layer, for these reasons.
This post is exclusively about layer 1 because voter apathy is the far more fearful element (to me) at this point. (Now, that’s not to say other people won’t butt in with their third-party concerns, but welcome to the internet lol). Hope this helps.