• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    31·
    5 months ago

    There are sometimes local races with only one candidate, but most races have more than one. Doesn’t mean that they’re all decent choices. But people can and do vote as they choose.

    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
      53·
      5 months ago

      Great, I was worried I had to vote for Genocide Joe Biden, but instead I’ll vote for someone I want to vote for.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        23·
        5 months ago

        And the consequences of a lot people doing that is that we will end up with Trump ending democracy and leaving us with a fascist state and no more meaningful elections

        • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
          43·
          5 months ago

          That’s what you’ve said for every election of my life, and I’m not young. It’s starting to wear thin, especially now that you’re trying to do it for someone who literally already was president. If what you say is true, then we already became a fascist state with no meaningful elections in 2016, so I won’t bother to vote at all.

          • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
            33·
            5 months ago

            Had the mob turned into the Senate chamber instead of chasing a black cop during the Jan. 6 insurrection that Trump incited, we really would have ended up with no democracy.

            • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
              53·
              5 months ago

              And if Obama had put all his enemies in FEMA camps, we really would have ended up with no democracy. But I don’t care any pointless counterfactuals that didn’t and couldn’t happen (there exists no universe where a mob of the most soft and coddled people in the country, that scattered after literally the first gunshot, defeats the capitol police in a battle to the death. And even if there was, there exists no universe where the federal government shrugs and goes “welp, they publicly massacred a bunch of our government representatives, I guess they’re in charge now, because that’s how it works; remember Lee Harvey Oswald became president after Kennedy?”

              So spare me, I’ve been told that Clinton, Bush, Gore, Obama, McCain, Romney, Clinton, Trump, Biden, and Trump again but really this time, are fascists who will end Democracy if they win.

              But it comes down to this; if we are a democracy, I’m going to vote for the person who I think best represents me, which isn’t Biden. Otherwise I’m not going to bother voting all, because it’s clear we’re already not a democracy.

              • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
                34·
                5 months ago

                Key difference: that fear was an irrational conspiracy theory. Which way a murderous mob turned while attacking congress was happenstance