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  • Clambake0351@piefed.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•Psssst
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    1 hour ago

    Yes and no, mostly no, but it’s open to interpretation.

    https://stereogum.com/2513749/tom-morello-clarifies-he-does-vote-just-not-for-corporate-democrats/news

    Short version, he bragged about not voting for Harris, with the nuance (which is so easily lost in today’s society) that she was all but guaranteed to win California, so his protest vote did not, on it’s own, risk contributing to Donald Trump’s second term.

    The flip side of that nuance is that his rhetoric about the subject, without the additional context, may discourage voting in swing states, which could help Trump/Republicans in a much more significant way than just not voting for Harris in California.

    His follow-up statements clarified his stance, including the quote I provided.

    His behavior overall was messy, but that quote holds up nicely on its own.




  • Clambake0351@piefed.ziptoPolitical Memes@lemmy.ca•Psssst
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    It’s California. There’s an open primary, I happen to live in one of the few red parts and for one spot the top two vote getters in the primary were Republican.

    They didn’t run unopposed, the opposition just all failed to get a consensus. CA’s system isn’t perfect, but realistically a Democrat doesn’t have a chance in this particular district, maybe the less evil Republican has a shot though.

    US elections involve some compromise. Vote for your ideal candidate in the primary, but after that there’s generally only 2 people who have any shot at a given seat, and throwing away your vote in protest helps the worst candidates succeed. That’s why elections spend so much money on attack ads - they want you feeling discouraged.


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    Reposting my own comment here:

    I live somewhere with 2 Republicans on the ballot for one seat with no write in line.

    I could have not voted at all on that item, but that wouldn’t have helped anybody but the worst of the two candidates.

    I poured through more interviews and candidate statements from these two trashy people than any other candidate I voted for, just to find the one that was the least evil.

    I still hate them both, but I voted for one to try and stem the bleeding because that’s how our Democracy works.

    And adding a quote from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello:

    But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch.





  • Not saying it’s a good thing, but wacky people can’t seem to comprehend that it’s possible for more… Let’s call them traditional Democrats could be turned off by Leftists, than there are Leftists turned off by Democrats.

    Either way though, Republicans profit from the infighting to the left and people’s inability to compromise.