Lesser Of Two Evils - Tumblr Posts
If you’re in the USA please vote for Biden, I know it just sounds like more hopeless defeatism but there is genuinely not a chance of another candidate winning this year. Most of the democrats/leftists are going to be voting for Biden cause we are still stuck in the two party system and the party didn’t agree on another one. Over the next four years we can build up a better candidate because Biden won’t have another chance but this isn’t the year to split over it. Trump wants to be an actual dictator in the White House forever, and take away even more rights from women and minorities. Biden has done good things for the country, at worst he’ll do pretty much nothing. He is actively trying to restore and protect women’s rights (he recently gave women’s medical health research more funding). Please please please use your vote for Biden even just as harm reduction.
Also remember to vote in other elections because Biden does not make all the decisions in the government.
USA radfems, who are you voting for in 2024?
Trump
Biden
Chase Oliver (Libertarian)
RFK (Independent)
Cornel West (Independent)
Randall Terry (Constitution)
Jill Stein (Green)
Other/Write in (please say who in notes)
Not American/See results
Thank you for the submission 🫶🏾
Listen, I'm not saying that not liking either candidate in an election and believing "both parties are the same" is grounds to not vote at all. I'm aware that harm reduction is a very serious issue and that throwing caution to the wind conveys a sort of privilege-driven apathy towards society.
That being said, the response of leftists towards people who believe that both parties are the same attempting to shame them for feeling this way is always so funny to me, because they'll say something akin to:
"Saying both parties are the same would've been profound 30 years ago, but now it just shows that you're out of touch."
not realizing the incredibly fitting irony in the fact that in the same way those who don't vote maintain the status quo by not taking action, they themselves are also contributing to it by actively playing into a system that always makes you choose the "lesser of two evils" rather than completely dismantling it and starting from scratch.
What's even more is the fact that these same leftists will always use the argument of:
"Politicians wouldn't try to take away voting rights if voting didn't do anything" as if the Electoral College and gerrymandering don't exist which stand squarely in the way of actual democracy, and as if both of these aren't just different forms of control that they've been duped into believing have any legitimate purpose behind them.
Fittingly, you'll find that their passion towards abolishing the Electoral College seems to be much quieter as well as their focus on participating and spreading awareness of local and state elections. Instances in which voting has a more immediate effect.
At the end of the day, while marginalized people will not be placed in immediate danger by choosing the "lesser of two evils", they will never truly be protected. Their fates will forever be hanging in the balance as if it were purgatory, never truly feeling secure because there will always be a potential countdown to when your existence expires.
The so-called "lesser of two evils" will not given them protection as much as it will continue to use them as a means of promoting an inauthentic message of progression and acceptance that the public overtime will come to accept as reality.
Oh, and for those leftists who are going to inevitably tell me:
"If you don't see the difference between either party then I don't know what to tell you."
Let it be known, not once did I ever say they stood for the same things, nor that you shouldn't fight against the worse reality. All I'm simply asking is, why have you become complacent with only two options, and if you are in fact not content with this, what are you doing to fix this?