• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I’ve never voted for a Republican OR Democrat that I didn’t know personally in my entire life. Why do I add that qualifier? Because I did know some older small town politicians, in both US parties, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when my grandfather was still alive, and they were his friends.

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        16 days ago

        No. Voting for the lesser of two evil is still voting for evil. I’ll write someone in before I vote for some party functionary that only cares about their own political power.

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          16 days ago

          So functionally, you abstain from voting and dont express a preference about how you are goverened.

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            16 days ago

            My preference is plain to see. I will NOT vote for the false dichotomy.

            Keep voting for evil if you want to, just quit trying to force everyone else to.

            Republicans or Democrats. They’re nothing without complacent voters with no real convictions.

            You have no right to lecture me on my belief in self-governance when it’s plain to see that you lack even a modicum of conviction in your political beliefs.

            You’ll vote for a party shill simply because they’re a party shill, despite the party not following through on any of their promises for the last 100 years, and then you have the absolute gall to try to lecture me?

            At least I have the courage of my conviction to stand on principle.

            What do you have, boot licker?

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              16 days ago

              Given that I havent expressed a preference and have never voted either Democrat or Republican in a single election (owing to not being American) I believe you may be inventing things about me.

              And what I said stands, you functionally dont express a preference and what you do is equivalent to staying in bed and not turning out to vote.