Comment on One of the most detrimental things to a productive society is when people think their actions don't make a difference

reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After Trump lost the popular vote by about 3 million in 2016 and was still appointed by the Electoral College… probably not that bad

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’d have lost by way more than that if people had voted. The largest “vote” were the none votes.

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    • cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Correct. A non-vote (or, sadly, a third party vote) is a vote for “the bad one.” (I’m not trying to say that Trump isn’t the bad one in any case, I just mean in general, you can’t complain about who won if you didn’t vote against them. A vote for a third party or a non-vote is always a vote for the worst one.)

      I say this as someone who voted third party in 2016. So did my wife. I voted Libertarian, she voted Green. We didn’t dislike Clinton per se, but we thought it was shady how the DNC did Bernie Sanders. If she would have competed cleanly we might have supported her. We don’t dislike her, like I said, but we did not want to vote for her underhanded methods. Of course, that’s a Clinton for you. I’m not a big fan of them… but I now see Clinton would have been a better president than Trump. We just did not know how bad he was in 2016. Still, in the interests of transparency… we may as well have voted for Trump for all the good we did. And that’s something I want to help other third party voters see.

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