I wish I could make more people understand this. Yeah we can argue about whether electoralism is good or bad for days in a separate thread. But if we are saying for the sake of argument that voting is actually worth something, the one way to guarantee that your vote doesn't mean jack shit is to hand it to someone blindly, whoever winds up winning one party's primary, like 18 months in advance before there's even a vote cast in a primary.
My thing is, even if you really 100% truly know you are going to vote for Biden in November, fine, go ahead, do that. But no one has to know that. What's the point in announcing it now? Hold his feet to the fire now, and then do whatever you want later. What does announcing it now accomplish other than adding yourself to a cluster of millions of people who pledged their vote to Biden, letting the Dems know they have votes in their pockets and don't have to do shit to appease us?
I really hate the term "virtue signaling" because it's been co-opted by Nazi wet-brains, but this is a textbook example of the original meaning of "virtue signaling".
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I wish I could make more people understand this. Yeah we can argue about whether electoralism is good or bad for days in a separate thread. But if we are saying for the sake of argument that voting is actually worth something, the one way to guarantee that your vote doesn't mean jack shit is to hand it to someone blindly, whoever winds up winning one party's primary, like 18 months in advance before there's even a vote cast in a primary.
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My thing is, even if you really 100% truly know you are going to vote for Biden in November, fine, go ahead, do that. But no one has to know that. What's the point in announcing it now? Hold his feet to the fire now, and then do whatever you want later. What does announcing it now accomplish other than adding yourself to a cluster of millions of people who pledged their vote to Biden, letting the Dems know they have votes in their pockets and don't have to do shit to appease us?
I really hate the term "virtue signaling" because it's been co-opted by Nazi wet-brains, but this is a textbook example of the original meaning of "virtue signaling".