2020 Election

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(08-07-2020, 05:34 PM)hollodero Wrote: It's like a tug of war. Of course you can just stand by, not help either side and then claim how is it on me how this thing ended?

Well, you didn't influence the outcome as you could have, that's how.

It's similar to these chicken or fish questions, as in what you'd prefer as dinner at a wedding or whatever. You might find chicken just meh and fish disgusting, you might actually want a tasty steak. But if you don't choose because steak is what you wanted, you dtill end up with fish or chicken and someone else made the decision for you. If it's the fish, it is on you, you knew the rules.

-- Of course, it really is not on you, for millions of people decided about one option anyway and it wasn't that close and whatever you did didn't change a thing either way. I get the futility argument blowing up all other analogies, but as I said, that's not the way a citizen should think.



? You're in Pennsylvania if I got that correct, and then your vote is one of the important ones. As far as I know this is a close state and it was in 2016.

How about if everyone who wasted a losing vote on Hillary in 2016 despite not liking her voted for Gary Johnson and Trump would have won but we'd actually be going into the 2020 election with that viable 3rd party candidate practically everyone I talk to thinks would be a good idea to have?  But nooooooooooooooooo everyone just HAD to vote for that democrat who could win despite being part of the political party that can win the popular vote and still get rolled in the electoral college.  So I guess they just voted for someone who had less of an unfair road to the White  House so it's all good.  Meh.

I suppose one of my main positives of voting for a 3rd party candidate I like is that everyone I've spoken to about politics, whether they are all about Trump or Bush or Obama or Clinton or even Jimmy Carter (my mom is his biggest fan, I swear) have been able to see the wisdom in having options outside of the 2 party system.  Add in the fact that Trump's election indicates that at least one of the major parties is open to becoming an easy road to the White House for dangerously unqualified candidates and the need for a 3rd option and more accountability is more important than ever.

At least that's how I see it.  I ain't so swift.  I will say the whole thread about how anyone can be crazy enough to vote for Biden has provided me with a lot of logical, yet even-handed and critical positives of that mindset.