Those fireworks kicked the crap out of the display I watched at the ozarks this year.
who you voting for DQ? I'm a Biden pub FWIW.
idk. probably some third party dork.
Just vote for trump bro.
What makes you say that?
Because in this particular election a throw away third party vote is a vote for trump, and you know that, it's exactly why so many Republicans are going public with their support for Biden. If you're a moderate Republican you are much closer to Biden's platform than I am, as dax has clinically pointed out over and over again. I am actually registered to a third party that stands to benefit from getting my vote that isn't coming this year.
I don't want to vote for Biden, but I've been given no choice. We are in an unprecedented time in America. We're bordering on authoritarianism. We had a president threatening to send armed police officers to patrol polling places. We have a department of education attempting to divert public tax dollars that should be used for pandemic relief, to private schools. We have federal law enforcement circumventing local authorities in providing law enforcement in local jurisdictions. On and on and on.
If your aren't voting affirmatively to end this, you're voting for it to continue, trump even said so himself earlier this week. "Never in American history has the choice been so clear."
I disagree with the premise that anything other than a vote for trump constitutes “a vote for trump.” Particularly when trump is trailing by a sizable margin in every poll. Put simply, I think for trump to win, he would need people generally aligning with my beliefs to vote for him. So no, I think by voting for someone else (or not voting), I would not actually or effectively be voting for Trump.
And I can’t in good conscience cast a vote for Biden. I know this isn’t popular and will prompt eye-rolls, but his views on abortion are a nonstarter for me.
I think there is a distinction between voting for the candidate you most support and voting against a candidate you most despise. In 2016 I voted for Gary Johnson because I thought he was the best option available and wasn’t even sure whether Trump or Hillary would be worse for the country.
This year I am positive that 4 more years of Trump would be a disaster. Not that my vote would have made a difference in 2016 but I do feel a little guilty that Trump winning allowed him to totally botch our coronavirus response and separate immigrant children from their parents as a deterrent to seeking asylum.
I would love if Trump’s opponent checked more boxes for me, but in my mind there is only one way to vote my conscience in this election. Biden is an underwhelming candidate, but the fact Democrats agreed to put forward their most moderate option for this election says a lot.