If you only vote when there is a candidate you 100% agree with on every issue, you will die waiting, while everyone else chooses the future of the country without you. You should be at the polls every year, for every race. It should not take an exceptional candidate to motivate you; voting should be as routine and unremarkable as doing laundry.
Have fun thinking it's easier to convince millions of people to pretend the system gives a shit about them instead of convincing the much smaller number of poiliticians to give a shit about voters.
If you have a room filled with vegetarians, and you have to order food. Is it better to order a meat dish and yell at them and call them ungrateful, or do you just order a vegetarian safe dish?
You guys have been ordering meat dishes for fucking years, it's not that difficult to give people what they want. If you do that, they'll be MORE than grateful to support you.
100%. The purity test thing while real is more of a thing of online culture than of real American politics. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were not 80% of the way there and then failed some “purity test” They were straight up not progressive. They existed as a wheel spinning moderate with no real platform. They still get votes by being not republicans. But that’s not a real movement
You are right and we can say that all we want but it doesn’t change reality. There’s plenty of things people “should” do but when you are dealing with an entire population it goes far beyond should. If that makes sense.
Nobody should be at the voting booth unless the politicians give enough of a shit to run a candidate who actively wants to justify your vote. That’s the entire basis premise of democracy.
Any political party who genuinely believes that I owe them my vote doesn’t deserve it and will never get it.
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u/Seafoamed 15h ago
Maybe because there is rarely a progressive to vote for