2020 Presidential Election

[hollodero]

(04-29-2020, 03:27 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I'd rather see Biden win that Trump, but I'd also rather vote for the person I think is the best for the job, not the person I think will give me the best chance of being on the winning side. 

I just don't see why 3rd party voters are constantly being told to change their votes in the cases where party liners are holding their noses as they cast theirs. 

Maybe im selfish but not voting for a candidate who is morally reprehensible doesn't seem like a wasted vote to me.  Is your vote supposed to be about who you want as president or who you don't want?

Should the ballot say 

DEAR GOD, NOT TRUMP
vs
DEAR GOD, NOT BIDEN


If that's the case then in happy I can cast a vote for dear God not either of those bastards.

I get it. I really really do. I'm also not telling you anything, I say I get the argument of those that do.

Because you put it sarcastically, and this also is very understandable, but it is just like that. The guy who gets the job is either Trump or Biden and that is the only effective choice you have. Voting third party is just as good as not voting at all. You leave the decision between the two, the only decision there effectively is, to the others. Don't be mad at me for pointing that out. That's just the state of things.

Also I do think that the thought "it should be about someone I want, not someone I don't want" is a false flag. As understandable as it is, it is also denial of reality. Which, again, is that it can only be one of those two. And it's possibly about the lesser of two evils, which, honestly, cannot quite be the first time ever you felt that way unless you're way under 30. Jeez, most of my votes were at least as much about avoiding something than about getting something.

The only relevant sentence regarding your actual decision is the first one. Everything else, as sad as this might be, is utopy.

That being said, I do respect your motivation and I sure do not try to shame you into changing it.

PS all that only applies if you live in some kind of swing state. If you don't, you don't have even one choice to begin with. In this case going third party is even more understandable.