As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn't designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they're pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the blue vote between Biden and whoever else will only lead to a Trump victory after which we might not even be ABLE to vote in 2028.

I'm legitimately having a panic attack. These airheaded anarcho-kiddies are genuinely going to land us all in camps.

biden's doing literally nothing to stop states from criminalizing lgbt people's existence emilie-pain

their fears about a trump presidency are valid but i wish these libs would stop putting their hopes in the DNC when its clear they have zero interest in running a candidate that isn't complete dogshit

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
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    3 months ago

    But have you considered the perspective that voting in literal fascists makes communism more possible somehow?

    People are fed up with the endless support for genocide and war, with high interest rates, rent and inflation. Democrats being in power has done basically nothing to stop the right wing takeover in states .

    I don't think I've ever run into someone with the position that voting one way or another is going to make communism happen faster though.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I can imagine the argument that Trump will destroy America and therefore he'd be good for communism, but I don't think I've seen that position articulated by real people instead of imaginary accelerationists.