@RogueChiroptera @ChrisChiakulas @Stephanie_Skora appreciate your responses and def don’t intend to suggest ppl should stop talking about this. i see not voting as either a clear bluff or just ineffective due to its prominence in solidly blue areas, so it’s a difference in opinion on strategy and nothing else
@Stephanie_Skora @sethisnotmyname this is where i get lost. we can’t contain this logic to ppl like you and me whose votes “don’t matter” and if we could then wouldn’t it be an ineffective strategy? i also worry abt this fueling disengagement not just from this pres election but from voting more broadly
@dmodmodmo@DonnaAndCats@LisaA311@Stephanie_Skora i think the solidly blue state distinction is a reasonable one. outside of that though, the structure of our system does mean that not voting for candidate A is helpful to candidate B (assuming you are are ideologically closer to A)
@Stephanie_Skora @sethisnotmyname someone recently framed voting as a means to “marginally improve the conditions for your everyday organizating work” and that very much resonates with me. i also feel like this framing aligns w girl i guess, but i would be interested in your thoughts on that
@Stephanie_Skora @sethisnotmyname for me, that would depend on the other candidate’s position along with each of their positions on every other issue. i would choose the least bad of the two / the one who i felt most optimistic about being able to push.