A progressive who stays home on Election Day — or backs Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, or No Labels — is voting for Donald Trump.

"Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis. Thälmann famously said that ‘some Nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forest’ of social democrats, whom he sneeringly called ‘social fascists.’

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933, Thälmann was arrested. He was shot on Hitler’s orders in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944."

      • bloodfart
        84·
        2 个月前

        The vote is counted. It gets tallied for the candidates it’s marked for.

          • bloodfart
            32·
            2 个月前

            Any candidate who gets 270 electoral votes.

            • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
              22·
              2 个月前

              Right. And PSL cannot get 270 votes from 18 states. It’s literally impossible. You’re throwing your vote away.

              • bloodfart
                22·
                2 个月前

                Do you think winning the electoral college is the only effect that a third party vote has?

                Especially for a party like PSL that runs down ticket candidates there’s much more than winning the ec.

                • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
                  21·
                  2 个月前

                  The winner wins the election and becomes the President and Vice President. That is what happens, not whatever your fantasy makes up.

                  • bloodfart
                    22·
                    2 个月前

                    Wow, is voter turnout used for anything else?