It is that time of year where idealistic voters and pragmatic voters fight about who's destroying the country Gonna do a thread about it
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Viewed through an ideological lens, pragmatic voting is bad because it empowers genuinely bad people and denotes hypocrisy: "You say you're a leftist and yet you've voted for this de facto Republican" But the pragmatic voter doesn't vote for a candidate. They vote for results
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I'm a pragmatic voter because, like many leftists, I think we don't fix this shit by voting alone Voting is one tool in a much larger toolbox I use my vote to create as much space as possible for those other tools. It's not some expression of who I am as a person
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In a few days I'm gonna get real drunk and vote for people I don't care for because I'm a single-issue voter this year and the issue is: which options minimize the likelihood that my friends and I will die in a camp or get extrajudicially murdered?
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If that's not you--if you're an ideological voter--that's your prerogative and you have every right to do whatever you want with YOUR vote. It isn't a vote for Trump or Wheeler or whatever. I get it There are no good options We'll all just do our best
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"Voting is one tool in a much larger toolbox. I use my vote to create as much space as possible for those other tools." What are the other tools?
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Mutual aid, working to change the culture, activist/pressure groups, writing and calling your representatives, protest, direct action, opinion journalism, volunteer work, etc etc etc
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this is such a great read thank you for sharing! here's another great thread with perspective on this issue from a statistician:https://twitter.com/Noratoriou5/status/1294462371587481606 …
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