• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Because voting for third parties never works and it often leads to some asshole like Trump being elected. Idealism does not win elections.

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        1 year ago

        I have the first hand experience that not voting for smaller parties is much worse. What ends up happening is people just don’t vote instead, or vote for who’s set to win (which would be Trump in this case).

        In Türkiye, main opposition bullied everyone else like this (to a point where a candidate withdrew). I know a lot of people who got bullied in real life for not supporting the major candidate. What ended up happening is they didn’t vote or vote for Erdoğan out of spite.

        Who do you think benefitted from this entire ordeal? Erdoğan. Trump will do the same and possibly gonna sweep the elections. Also he’s probably gonna call for more people to vote because the position he’s in can be capitalized upon as “Biden is trying to eliminate the main opposition” which actually will drive more people to vote. Erdoğan did the same exact thing as well.

        Good luck.

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      1 year ago

      You know exactly why, it’s because it is the truth and they didn’t want to hear it. This is why I try to stay out of political discussions because it always boils down to “yeah well I’m X team and the Y team is bad because X said so!”.

      People say they want change yet here we are, restricting freedoms with each election, the only difference being the types of freedoms restricted change when the other party finally gets into office.

      You can read the history books, these people are not your friends, all they care about is controlling the people, and they are so dick-brained that they can’t even agree amongst themselves how they should do it.