I want Rank Choice voting.
I want third party Presidents.
I want the abolishment of party politics.
I want politicians to be voted on individual merit.
I want strict term limits for our politicians.
I want to overturn Citizens United V. FEC.
I want to live in a country that I don’t have to be so completely disappointed in.
These are all good things to want… but what you all need to understand is that these are all very, very long term goals.
And the 2024 elections are not going to wait that long.
We need short term solutions as well as long term solutions so that the short term solutions will keep us afloat long enough to reach those long term goals.
And I hate to say it. I mean I really, really, really, really hate to say it.
But Biden is our best short term solution right now.
I know, believe me, I know. The man is a war criminal and a coward and a fucking murderer. The very fact that I am in any way advocating for him makes me sick to my fucking stomach. I hate Biden and I hate the fact that this is how far our country has fucking fallen.
But it really is either him or Trump.
We can vote for a third party candidate all we want, but even if they win by thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of votes in the popular vote…
That all adds up to maybe a handful of electoral votes as far as the Electoral College is concerned. And as far as the president is concerned, those are the only votes that matter.
It really is either Biden or Trump.
And as terrible, godawful, outright evil as Biden is… we can survive him. We cannot survive another four years of Trump.
He will do everything in his power to turn the U.S. into an outright dictatorship, and if he succeeds, we can kiss any short term or long term goals goodbye. The only goal left will be surviving. That’s it.
And I know this means the genocide in Palestine will continue, but let’s just be honest with ourselves, it’ll continue under Trump too, if not be outright worse.
Trump idolizes tyrants and dictators. You really think he won’t bend over backwards for Israel and give them everything they need to turn Gaza into a glass floor?
I know people are sick to death of hearing things like ‘damage control’, but as far as the presidential election is concerned, damage control is literally all we have left.
However, that’s just the presidential election. We have other options. We can still vote on the state level, we can still protest, we can still advocate, we can still fight.
We can do everything in our power to put more good people in the system, besides the President, who will bring Biden to heel, call him out, drag him through the mud if need be, but that will be a lot easier to do with Biden than with Trump.
Don’t let anyone tell you it’s too little or not enough. They just don’t want you to exercise the power you have because it is a threat to them.