• Wiz@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    You are right. With our first-past-the-post system and our electoral college, we only have two possibilities: Trump or Biden winning. You get to help decide which is the best (or the least worst).

    I see 4 possibilities, depending on your political leaning.

    1. Liberal voting for Biden. Helps Biden.
    2. Conservative voting for Trump. Helps Trump.
    3. Liberal not voting for Biden. Helps Trump.
    4. Conservative not voting for Trump. Helps Biden.

    If you don’t like these choices, work to get rid of the Electoral College. Work to support ranked-choice voting or some other alternative to first-past-the-post. But sitting this out will hurt one candidate while helping the other to win. If you don’t like either candidate, vote for the least worst of the top two - the one closest to you.