• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve never voted for a Republican OR Democrat that I didn’t know personally in my entire life. Why do I add that qualifier? Because I did know some older small town politicians, in both US parties, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when my grandfather was still alive, and they were his friends.

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        1 day ago

        No. Voting for the lesser of two evil is still voting for evil. I’ll write someone in before I vote for some party functionary that only cares about their own political power.

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          23 hours ago

          So functionally, you abstain from voting and dont express a preference about how you are goverened.

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              20 hours ago

              Given that I havent expressed a preference and have never voted either Democrat or Republican in a single election (owing to not being American) I believe you may be inventing things about me.

              And what I said stands, you functionally dont express a preference and what you do is equivalent to staying in bed and not turning out to vote.

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                16 hours ago

                As you said. You aren’t American, so you don’t have any right to interject yourself into our voting system. And for the record, our 2 party system is absolutely nothing like most other nations that have multiple strong parties.

                You cannot break the stranglehold of the 2 party system by continuing to vote for those two parties.