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"By not voting for Biden, you're letting conservatives win!"
Did libs ever consider that by voting blue no matter who, it only served to empower the GOP?
They hate that argument - likely because they're well-aware on some level.
By continuing to prop up a given candidate not for their actual policies and skills but instead simply because they're our party / they're not other party, they've enabled mediocrity and incompetence for many cycles now - and we're seeing the predictable results of that strategy.
This is the brain on partisanship.
Vote blue? Vote for the party that has actively funded the furthest right-wing fringes of the Republican Party? Yeah that seems like a great way to save our Democracy™, I'm such a hecking good person uwu
Counterpoint: By voting for Biden you are casting a vote of approval empowering conservativism in the US because Biden is a conservative