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Ocasio-Cortez endorses Biden's reelection campaign, sending a strong signal of Democratic unity
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Ugh. I'm not real happy about having to vote to uphold the gerontocracy, but as both likely frontrunners are a part thereof, all I can do is vote to minimize the harm.
That’s only true if you live in a swing state. If your state’s certain to go one way or the other, vote your conscience, even if it’s a write-in.
I would argue the opposite. An increasing minority vote/poll in a "safe" state would pull resources away from swing states to keep the state "safe". Not many people would have imagined Georgia going blue in federal elections but here we are.
If things are bad enough that NY goes red, how I voted is the least of our problems.
I mean actually red or blue states. Georgia’s dynamics have been moving centerward for years, and people who pay attention to that stuff knew that.
And how do you think Georgia started going blue? It doesn't happen overnight.
I didn’t say it did. But it can’t happen everywhere either. A unique blend of demographic changes and a long-term, serious, political organizing campaign are a powerful blend, but exactly how long do you think we have to turn this country around, even if every state had an influx of educated professionals like Georgia did? I know the stability of institutions has a powerful pull, but ours are failing, and we have impending crises on multiple fronts that they are incapable of handling. We need to make other plans. Vote, too, if you like. Just don’t count on it to save us.
Same with Texas, down to the fact that their attorney general was bragging about preserving republican minority rule by preventing the "wrong" people from voting.
I live in Texas (a state that will go a certain way) and I will vote Dem. It makes no sense to me to help make a bigger gap between the Republicans and everybody else just because the Dems suck too.
The "principled stance" a protest vote makes only helps embolden the current political hellscape within my own state. If I can chip away at the Republican power structure, I will do it.