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IMO it doesn't matter if you do a 3rd party protest vote if you're not in a swing state. The system is fundamentally broken by design
There seems to be a ton of finger pointing from liberals (mostly outside of leemy). Trump won on promises to gullible fools on literally making cost of living cheaper (this includes fascist and non fascist talking points)
The dems lost on not conveying their solutions to cost of living well and of course not taking a stand against the faction of war and genocide that many of them are actively working for or with.
A lot of establishment dems are just mad it's not their brand of authoritarianism
This is fundamentally incorrect.
West Virginia for example, almost 70% of the votes went to trump. 533,556 people to be exact. In 2024, they had 1,189,961 registered voters... Do the math, there were 656,405 people that didn't vote for trump. Even in the reddest state in the union (by percentage of votes) trump can still lose if the people who didn't vote for him decide to vote against him.
You fucking say "it doesn't matter unless you're in a swing state" and I say "The only way your vote doesn't matter is if you don't fucking vote."
There are votes this year that can flip Congress. It's happening now. Primaries are now. Go fucking vote for fucks sake.
Insane isn’t it?
The fact Republican voters have been so successful with these principles: vote religiously and vote R bears out the stupidity of these arguments..
Not only that, they prove it in primaries by putting lunatics in for years too.
The evidence is right in front. Just vote, and do it every time.