Get out and vote!

Slightly OT, but this is also why we absolutely need ranked voting ASAP. How much better would a candidate like Sanders do if people knew that voting for him as first choice and Biden as second was possible?

This was the same promise in 2020. And yet here we are. Democrats should have done better than beg to save democracy one more time.

This is posted in political humor, but unfortunately, it's not a joke.

Joe Biden has the authority to resign. Joe Biden can choose to not run in 2024. If he cared about preserving democracy, he would let someone more electible take his place.

If things go wrong, it's the fault of the people in power.

As a Canadian looking from the outside in, it really does seem to be trending in that direction… any further Republican wins will mean the end of democracy, with America sliding into a ChristoFascist Autocracy.

I fear for my American neighbours, but we have similar problems up here; we just happen to be a decade or so behind you folk.

Weird, I was sold almost the exact same line in 2020.

I don't know much about US politics, but is Biden the only choice you have besides voting for Trump? There's zero alternatives? I've seen in the comments that people prefer Biden to other democrat candidates, because he already beat Trump already, so it has better chances to beat him again. But realistically, it seems like everyone hates Trump with a burning passion, so any Democrat that is not batshit insane and totally incompetent would beat him, right? Seems like an easy win.

We literally do not live in a democracy according to a bunch of empirical studies, and also according to basic material analysis.

The opinion of the masses is never reflected in our government.

Does your politics begin and end at participating in sham elections? Why aren't you encouraging people to take meaningful political action?

Imagine being Russian and the extent of your political activism is encouraging people to vote Putin out.

That's how ridiculous you are.

As we all know, politics only happens when you vote for president every 4 years.

I look at this fom a far and i wonder: Why do the democrats not just get a younger more capable person to vote for?

Man the Democratic Party this election cycle has just been working overtime to invite the conversational wedge between 'saving american democracy from fascism' and 'voting against Trump.'

I guess that's what the donor class wants this time: "Do nothing but vote."

This is the same tired line we have to hear every 4 years. It's been a substitute for concrete policy and it's gotten all of us nowhere.

Fuck em both I’m voting for Brandon.

This was the exact shit said in 2020 and for years before that. There is no 'next generation Democrat' because the Dems are just as complicit in this farce as the Republicans. I refuse to vote for the party of "maybe we'll try to slow the rapid descent into christofascist capitalism just a little a bit, as long as it doesn't make the shareholders mad."

There are no next gen democrats. They only think one single election at a time.

It's sad how the US spends trillions on defense, when all it takes to seize control over the nation is some bottom tier Dollar Store propaganda that any third world nation could afford.

This is the only argument left for Democrats.

More like "It doesn't matter how you vote, the evil party is going to win because the slightly-less-evil party just lost a large chunk of their voter base because funding a ethnic genocide in the middle east was a hill they were dying on"

Do your part by voting for the slightly less shit party, but don't be surprised when it happens anyway, they're counting on it. They want it. Whenever they need to do something evil they can just throw the election so the republicans can take the hit for them, just like every time.

Oh, I'm sure they would still hold elections. But your options would be even more limited. "Sorry, but the other parties just didn't run any candidates for this election. Imagine that."

and here are the results of the strategy of voting for the lesser evil

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

Not humorous and also not good faith discourse. This is just moralizing even though I agree with the sentiment

That's where youre wrong. There are more than 2 parties. The 2 party system is atrocious.

Uh or we can vote for the independent left and not some capitalist who belongs in a retirement home

I'm writing in Hamas in 2024

They said this shit in 2016. Last time I checked Trump isn't president anymore.

This dumb scare rethoric isn't gonna make anyone vote for Genocide Joe anymore. The terror Dems must learn.

Voting for Joe Brandon is a no brainer.

Both are too old to run. Honestly, I don't think Joe would make it another 4 years.

If the dems run Biden again it's clear the MIC is the one picking the president not us.

If it's Biden again, I'm going 3rd party for life.

It's still a year out why do we have to believe these are our only two options.

The downvotes on this post are incredibly suspect for lemmy.ml.

The logic of the picture is dumb as fuck.

there's a 19yo candidate ? looks like I'm completely out of the loop

and how would our right to vote be taken away? fearmongerers

This hits 100% true.

unless Biden helped to take your ability to vote away

just leaves older people voting and people who will eat anything they are served

no wonder we only have two parties the ones who are willing to vote third are not able to vote

If Trump was able to pull off something like this, wouldn't he have done it during his first term?

I vote for old person

Never voting again sounds good to me, since that way people would realize how pointless it is. Unfortunately neither option will lead to that outcome and people will pat themselves on the back after voting for the Capitalist party.

boooo. boooooooo. booooooooooo

Incorrect, Vote 3rd party and make a difference.

I predict this goes one of three or four ways:

Trump wins the Republican nomination.

 Biden steps down and that Newsome guy runs as a Democrat.

Biden runs for re-election against Trump and there will be a third candidate to split the vote someway.

Newsome actually wins the Republican nomination and changes the Republican party, like a lot.

DeSantis pulls a miracle and wins the Republican nomination and the election becomes a four way with Biden, Trump, DeSantis, and someone else (probably Newsome).

Leftist when they vote third party and allow a facist to win and harm minorites and lgbt peoples to teach rich dems a lesson?

This kind of leftist have actually 0 values. Just populist who are contrarians to pretend to be smart. Actual idiocy.

If Trump wanted to get rid of voting, why didn't he do so last time? How about we just get better security at the capitol, and eliminate whatever loophole he was trying to use in the insurrection?

Why do I have vote for the next gen Dem in 2028? Is this post implying Trump will continue running until his death? That the GOP will be unable to shelve his candidacy after another loss--and I have to imagine increasing incoherency?

Just because it's true doesn't mean it isn't bullshit. We're fucked.

If your point is I'm going to be a dick, then just say I'm going to be a dick, and be that dick. Dick.

Situation sucks. But, with Cheeto chimp it'll suck 1000X more.

Don't be complacent. Don't be apathetic.