Ask Lemmygrad

Voting is useful and powerful but only as an organized and disciplined block that makes demands and doles out punishment to elected officials. Like unions used to and organizations like the DSA may someday develop the capacity for in the future.

I have friends all over the world, so the takes tend to vary a lot. Most of my uni friends were from China and have since moved back there, we tend to have pretty similiar politics. I live in Japan now and discussing who you are voting for would be a rarity, I don't even really know how my partner votes. I don't think I have ever met a single person in the country who was excited to vote for a LDP candidate.

I do have friends in the states still, who tend to be the most vocal about this kind of thing. Most that I would truly consider a friend over there is fairly leftist. A few of the more liberal ones grudgingly vote Democrat, but none of them are excited about it or would try to convince me to do the same.

I have acquantances who are shitlibs and are excited about their purple candidate of choice, but it's not really worth getting into it over a guy I last saw in person five years ago.

“You said ‘vote blue, no matter who’ and Democrats did nothing when they had power to change things. You blame Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin. They are part of the ‘no matter who’ crew. Care to explain that?”

I just don't vote in anything but local elections, I just don't really care what my friends think about politics unless they're socialists lol