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I'll vote for the candidate that deserves my vote.
If that's "none of the above" like from Brewster's Millions, well, that would make sense considering both candidates are running for president like the last thing they want is to be president, they just can't drop out of the election.
If the DNC wants more votes next election, maybe they shouldn't run an 82 year old conservative who went around Congress to fund a genocide then blamed peaceful protestors when zionists and cops attack them?
Seems kind of common sense, the left wing part should be left wing...
But it is what it is.
If you don't like it, why try to convince 100s if millions of people to vote for someone they disagree with rather than the handful of people at the DNC that decide who the candidate is, to pick a better candidate to push thru the primary next time?
I would have said convince Biden to do anything, but we all know he's going to do whatever the fuck he wants. He's 82 years old, and that's what that generation thinks a leader is. Just like trump.
The problem is the majority of voters are half their age and we're just not into that shit.
Making a point is what the primary is for.
The point that was made was they'll declare it over after the first handful of states, and if you keep voting progressive early, they'll take your delegates away.
A couple years ago the DNCs lawyers made another point to a judge:
Tell me again why anyone cares about the primary?
2020 we said it could pull Biden to the left. It did till the election, January wasn't even over before he said he couldn't change any Dem senator's mind so it would be a waste of time to try for anything.
So while letting the primary run to the convention would help the party's choice in the general, they're not prepared to take the risk of their pick losing and having to nominate against the primary result.
So please, let me know there's so magical way primary votes matter.
And what the ones of us in the 45 states that don't vote till long after the DNC declared a victory can do?
Hell, my ballot literally didn't even have a "undecided" option. There was one circle next to Biden's name and that was fucking it.
And why do you think non voting makes a difference in your favor? There is no progressive party. There is a conservative party and a REGRESSIVE party. You think hitting the gas pedal on reverse is going to help the situation? You're being a clown. You deserve what you're voting for.