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Call me idealist but… whatever happened to that notion of voting for a candidate you actually like, agree with, and think would be a good president? I was reading up on the PSL presidential candidate Claudia de la Cruz the other day. She seems hella cool and I can’t find any position she has that I disagree with. She would be the best president the US ever had by a long shot. I like her and support her, so why shouldn’t I vote for her?

Do we live in a country of liberal democratic values or not? If America is this city on a hill, and our most cherished value is to be able to vote to express our values, why would it matter if my preferred candidate won’t win? All I ever hear from liberals is that America’s system of governance is better than China’s because we can choose from more than one party, and in America I can vote along with my conscious since we (on paper) have multiparty elections (just pay no attention to the stats on which country more of their own citizens think is a democracy). But then every 4 years we have to chuck all that, hold our nose, and only vote for a candidate that can win. And if that’s all that voting is now in America, then why even bother with this farce that western style liberal democracy is the highest form of governance. If all we can do is vote for candidates we hate, then no, our version of democracy sucks ass, this country sucks, and we should just throw the whole thing out and try something radically different. But in the meantime fuck it, if I’m forced to live in this shithole that likes to pretend it’s the greatest country on earth, then come Election Day I’m gonna vote the way I’m told by the slick marketing materials I’m supposed to vote: for someone who represents my values and who I think is best suited to lead the country.