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I want my election choice in 2024 to be Omar vs. Tlaib. But instead, it's Biden vs. Trump... and sitting this one out is still choosing.
Careful if you play that game- I imagine for many people, not without considerable reason, Trump is by far the lesser evil. Biden literally seems to be the "smash and burn, and accelerate towards WW3" candidate- and for all Trump's bigotry and proto-fascism (issues for domestic policy, and for minorities- saying that as someone who's trans and Asian- ethnic Chinese myself), and how pro-Israel he is (not like he could feasibly do more harm than Biden in that regard)- I'd argue he's the saner, more capable candidate (not a high bar at all).
If someone wanted the US to continue existing as a country with some semblance of prosperity in the future (I don't)- honestly, they should probably pick Trump. He at least seems to be a genuine nationalist, and someone who can imagine gradually withdrawing from the empire. Biden and the neolibs/neocons are either wholly and irredeemably deranged, or (more likely/more often) corrupt beyond even Trump's measure, and stuffing their pockets (and that of the MIC), and gambling on maintaining their "thousand year reich" with all intent to flee to New Zealand or the Caribbean when and if everything goes to hell.
And who was the first US President to stand on a union picket line? Only ten minutes... but still. Would you rather vote for the semi-proworker candidate, or the clearly pro billionaire boss man candidate?