I am a Palestinian American in Pennsylvania, a contested state. I plan to write in “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary on 23 April and in November, I will vote for a third-party candidate.
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For many, myself included, a vote for Biden is simply impermissible – the extent of the moral calamity is so great as to render a vote for Biden a vote for complicity.
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As the president of the Center City mosque in Philadelphia, Mohammed Shariff, said to me: “My vote is the purest form of expression and speech.” President Biden ignores our voices at his own peril, and ours.
“I plan to vote for the fascist who will deport me and my family out of the country. Won’t you join me in destroying American democracy outright instead of shifting the Overton Window to the left by voting progressive people in and looking forward to 2028?”
they said they would vote for a so called third party. that’s voting against fascists.
In the American system, voting for the 3rd party is voting for Republicans.
this is misinformation. the votes must be counted for whoever the voter chooses.
No it’s not. In a 2 party system, Republican voters vote straight Republican, regardless.They see that r and they pull the trigger. Democrats, on the other hand are a much broader tent. They encompass everybody else that isn’t Is die hard republican.
What pool of voters do you think are gonna be drawn mostly to a green party ticket? It’s not gonna be republican voters
Jesus you guys have it all backwards, someone needs to overhaul this crap
You’re not wrong, but there’s no incentive for the people operating in the current system to change that system.
the pool who don’t like war and environmental destruction
no, they don’t. if that were true then no one would vote for any party except democrats and republicans. that’s not the case, so you’re incorrect.
So in conclusion when you have a third party ticket it inevitably will weaken the democrat vote thereby putting republicans in power
Thus demonstrating that America is not a democracy, it only pretends to be.
It’s a democracy that’s been hijacked by two parties.
Which is exactly what George Washington warned about in his farewell address:
"Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely ought of sight) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."- George Washington Farewell Address September 19, 1796
If it’s been “hijacked” then at best it’s a former democracy, but even that is being too generous since the country was founded with suffrage limited to white male landowners.