Hey look, more people on Lemmy trying to discourage voter turnout if the candidate is not perfect.
I dont want Newsom to be president either, but if he makes it past the primaries it's sure as shit better than the alternative. Even if both sides have bad candidates, they are never equally bad - both sides are not the same here. And the current administration has proven that even if you leave the US, the shit storm spreads well outside our borders.
Vote for your ideals in the primaries, but don't throw a temper tantrum when your candidate doesn't make it past the post. That's how we got to where we are today, and everyone in the world to some degree has to suffer through the incompetence.