Strategic voting doesn’t work though. A representative democracy only functions if you vote for someone you believe represents you, not if you vote for whoever least doesn’t. If you do that, you get the choice between genocide and “genocide >:)” This text is from 1972 and the arguments for strategic voting are the then as it was now. Even back then these arguments were seen as very obviously flawed.
“One more election bro, I swear just one more. One more and then you can vote for a leftist, I promise! We just have to beat [villain of the week]” This was trotted out for Trump, Romney (binders full of women crazy Mormon), Cheney (old man crazy racist), Bush (dubya), Dole (I don’t even know how they managed it with this dud of a dude), Bush (senior), Reagan and then some. If strategic voting worked, we’d have seen the results a long time ago.
Your calculus is simple, and you still get it wrong. You don’t push the democrats left by voting for them unconditionally, that just pushes republicans further right (and then the Dems follow, because they’re right wing and have no votes to lose as long as rubes like you do this shit). You push them left by voting for a leftist party. “Ohhh then my vote is wasted!” If you don’t think your vote is wasted on a genocidal dementia patient, then your brain has been replaced by a portobello. Also, to paraphrase one of your ilk from last election, they’re electable if you fucking vote for them
Strategic voting doesn’t work though. A representative democracy only functions if you vote for someone you believe represents you, not if you vote for whoever least doesn’t. If you do that, you get the choice between genocide and “genocide >:)”
This text is from 1972 and the arguments for strategic voting are the then as it was now. Even back then these arguments were seen as very obviously flawed.
“One more election bro, I swear just one more. One more and then you can vote for a leftist, I promise! We just have to beat [villain of the week]” This was trotted out for Trump, Romney (binders full of women crazy Mormon), Cheney (old man crazy racist), Bush (dubya), Dole (I don’t even know how they managed it with this dud of a dude), Bush (senior), Reagan and then some. If strategic voting worked, we’d have seen the results a long time ago.
Your calculus is simple, and you still get it wrong. You don’t push the democrats left by voting for them unconditionally, that just pushes republicans further right (and then the Dems follow, because they’re right wing and have no votes to lose as long as rubes like you do this shit). You push them left by voting for a leftist party. “Ohhh then my vote is wasted!” If you don’t think your vote is wasted on a genocidal dementia patient, then your brain has been replaced by a portobello. Also, to paraphrase one of your ilk from last election, they’re electable if you fucking vote for them
She can win if you vote for her!