2020 Election

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(08-07-2020, 02:36 PM)hollodero Wrote: The latter is a completely fair point. It might depend which black woman is his running mate and how one feels about her too (btw. that it has to be a black woman annoys me). As for Biden, most of my points were made in comparison, I did not plan to hide that, nor do I think Biden is an inherently good candidate. I still think my list is fair. It is Biden or Trump, after all.

At times I feel those that vote third party are somewhat eased by knowing their pick will not make it anyway and hence they don't have to live with anything. No shot against Jorgensen, don't know her much. But of course it's also true for you, when you vote for her you keep your vote out of the actual race, and I would have assumed that had to go with some kind of refusal of my list. 
Also, you want Americans to show Trump the door, so you root for a certain outcome, but you yourself don't want to contribute to it.

Yeah, the Biden going with a black woman VP seems to be damn near as much pandering as Trump slagging off on Muslims or acting like he gives a rat's ass about Jesus, but that's politics for ya.  

I vote libertarian because in a way it is a comfort to know I can't be proven "wrong" but my single vote is dust in the wind and I like the idea that I can complain about Trump being a gropey idiot without having to admit that I voted for a different gropey idiot or engage in a discussion where I have to defend and analyze levels of sexual deviancy between candidates I support vs those I abhor. I voted for Gore, Kerry, and Obama before going Johnson, Johnson due to my disillusionment with Obama's handling of the war and the Patriot Act, for the most part. I enjoy discussing the reasons and pros and cons of each vote I've made and I'll admit the democrat ones had a lot of "I didn't like the other guy" impetus behind them.

Plus if you vote 3rd party your popular vote sort of counts in regards to the party actually getting federal funding/recognition, though I also know that is:

A. unlikely to happen due to a lack of votes
B. if it does happen the D&R machine will just change the rules so it doesn't happen


I'm also a bit of a lazy single-issue voter in the sense that libertarians don't promise to limit our freedoms in order to get elected, so that seems good enough for me.  It's handy during any political argument to be able to shrug and say "Hey, I voted for the candidate that stood for more freedom and he/she got his/her ass handed to her, so what the hell do I know about what the land of the free wants?"