• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    11 months ago

    Unfortunately, when the votes are counted, whoever has the most votes wins.

    It doesn’t matter if the “not Trump” vote gets split across 1 candidate or 4 candidates, if Trump gets more votes than any one of them HE WINS.

    Trump - 40%
    Joe - 35%
    Jill - 15%
    West - 10%

    Trump wins. Even though “not Trump” is 60%.

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      11 months ago

      yep. i guess the democrats better drop out and throw their support behind a candidate other people can stomach.

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        11 months ago

        Unfortunately, it’s not up to “the Democrats”, it’s up to the DNC and there is no way they will back anyone else unless Joe has a major medical event between now and election day.

        Even if he did drop out, they would push Harris who is poison right now.

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            11 months ago

            Won’t happen as long as they need money from Zionists and Evangelists.

            Maybe if we had public funding of elections.

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      11 months ago

      The problem is that, in a democracy, you have to vote for the best candidate. Otherwise, democracy doesn’t work. If you decide to vote for a candidate "you don’t like* (i.e. “strategic voting”), you are contributing to the problem.

      People call it “voting for the lesser evil”, but a vote for a lesser evil…is still a vote for evil. So, while it isn’t as wrong as voting for Trump, it’s still wrong.

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        11 months ago

        Coalescing behind a candidate to defeat the worst choice is not wrong. Especially when the worst candidate will win otherwise.

        Now, in an election that goes to a run off if nobody gets 50%+1 - Great, vote for who you want. But be prepared to coalesce in the run off.

        Unfortunately, presedential elections aren’t subject to a run off.