Voting independent in the general election is voting as a spoiler. You may as well not vote, which in this current situation is effectively "let's have just a little fascism."
I know everyone fucking hates hearing this, but voting 3rd party in national general elections in the US is a fucking waste. In our current two-party FPTP system, third parties functionally do not exist, and they know it. Most of them are functionally grifts as a result.
I know we've been saying that "this next election is crucial to the survival of American democracy" for the last couple of elections, so it's probably starting to sound like old hat or like people are exaggerating, but y'all...
There is literally nothing more important to your cause - whatever that cause is - than keeping Trump out of the fucking White House.
You don't have to like Biden. You don't have to think he's the right choice for the Democrats to run. I surely think they should have made another choice, to put it mildly, but they fucking didn't and here we are. We are at the point where it's either Biden or Trump, and every goddamned third-party vote is "well, maybe a little fascism would be okay."
Putin and fucking Bibi would be thrilled to deal with Trump. The people who want to ram all of us into tiny little narrow boxes where we have children we can't afford because we don't have a choice and then spend all of our lives hungry, scrambling, desperate and easy to control? The people who have been literally making those plans in public since Reagan, and planning explicitly how to get poor white people to have more babies, specifically so those poor white people will keep them in power? They love Trump.
Is this what I wanted? No. We didn't even have primaries in my state before the race was essentially decided. But you know what?
This is where we are, and no amount of wishing it were otherwise will change that. At this point, if you're not focused on keeping That Dude out of power, you're helping hand it to him.
It sucks, but it's the truth.
Protest votes are for primaries. Third parties should not be taken seriously in Presidential elections especially - and any third party that isn't focusing locally first is basically just a grift to get people on TV and into the national news so they can [raise money/get money as a political consultant/sell books/whatever Marianne Williamson's current grift is now that she isn't telling AIDS patients they will only get sick if they don't pray hard enough and maybe they can stop taking their meds].
Sorry, y'all. It ain't the house renovation we all wanted, but we can't redo the kitchen and repaint the living room if we let Trump and his goons set explosives under the foundation.
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