• spider@lemmy.nz
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    8 months ago

    ‘Get your MAGA hat’

    He’s got it backward and needs to look in the mirror.

    i.e.,

    There are people who defend Trump, no matter what.

    and

    There are people who defend Biden, no matter what.

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      8 months ago

      Sure, but we also have to realize that we live in a country with a two-party system and a winner-take-all electoral college. If you’re not helping your candidate, you’re helping the opponent.

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        8 months ago

        we live in a country with a two-party system

        Although they’re perpetually marginalized, we do have third-party candidates.

        Edit: Amusing how people downvote a neutral, factual statement.

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          8 months ago

          They’ll never have a chance in a winner-take-all electoral college system.

        • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          8 months ago

          You’ll never convince 160 million people to vote 3rd party. So a vote for 3rd party is a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates.

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            8 months ago

            No, a vote 3rd party is a vote against your most tolerable of the two viable candidates.

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            8 months ago

            The key here is that it’s a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates based on the votes of who bothered to vote for them specifically, then further butchered via the EC. It’s a smaller, different pool of people that may elect someone that the actual majority prefer less, because part of the actual majority decided to play a different game entirely.