I've noticed a lot of posts asking how we're going to vote, and people coming in trying to shame people for not voting for Biden, or any candidate in the general election at all.
So I'm curious and, asking in good faith, want to know - what will make you stop voting for Biden?
I'm not trying to set you up for a dunk, but why do you vote if you don't think it can be used as leverage?
From how you describe, it doesn't seem like a choice outside of aesthetics at this point. I believe that if I refuse to show up or participate in voting the general and stay consistent with my views, that I'm not passively accepting the lower standards we're presented. I'm also not endorsing, defending, or carrying water for candidates who are commiting or enabling crimes against humanity.
My personal concern is that a broad acceptance of Biden as the preferable outcome between two inevitable outcomes limits the conversation on what kind of world is possible. The DNC still has time to course correct and be on the right side of history.
Voting nationally is a low leverage action, but abstaining is a no leverage action. So to have any leverage at all I must vote, and since I'm voting I'm going to vote for the best/least worst candidate. Diamond Joe does some shitty things but Trump is another ambitious, poorly spoken level, his treacheries have treacheries. I don't have a viable third option so this is where I'm at.
We had a chance at real change in 2016 and it was taken away. If that happens again I am all in but I don't see any beneficial action right now to make that a reality.
What do you mean we had a chance at real change in 2016??
Before that
You can't mean Bernie, the guy who also will not even call for a ceasefire from Israel...
If you ask for someone that takes a hard line stance in 100% agreement with you, you'll never get it. Find the best option you can in a given situation and roll with it. Push back on the differences, try to move policy where you want it to go, but understand you cannot always have your way 100% of the time in a world with other humans.
In other words, don't let perfect be the enemy of better. What is the alternative?
You know that saying is usually reserved for minor differences in policy, not for allowing the deaths of thousands
Yeah we've mostly soured on Bernie since he endorsed his good friend Genocide Joe and even more so with his recent support for the genocide
https://youtu.be/CL5Hme-TVFs?si=cVjgssfOAzg8kbNl
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Abstaining is how voting can have leverage. Voting only has leverage if politicians can't take your vote as a given