I’ve been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL’s de la Cruz or Green’s West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most “effective” use of my time in election season this year. The argument for “not” is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes this system, even if a third party candidate getting a record turnout would grab more attention (and piss off Blue MAGA cultists) than simply not going since it’s not like abysmal turnouts, even by this country’s historical standards, are newsworthy at this point. So I guess I have to ask how you people rationalize voting or not this year?
I fully understand that this is more symbolic than anything else and won’t materially affect change for a while but it’s still something to think about.
I’m going to kms in the desert and give my body back to nature. Wayyyy more humble than living life as I was taught and have known it. The life I’ve seen is pure evil. Maybe it would have been different if I wasn’t lied to and manipulated during my adolescents all the way I to my 30s. It’s as if everyone wanted me to fail from the begining… Like I was raised and taught this. They, the people I’ve known my whole life, want this of me.