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Assertion: You live in an entrenched two party system.
Scenario: Only concerning ourselves with voting, which party do you vote for?
I bring this up as a person in America who has beliefs that do not fit into either of the two parties. Some of my preferred policies are backed by one party, some are backed by the other, some are backed by neither.
I take action beyond voting like working to switch the voting system to approval voting, but I'm going to limit the discussion to voting because that's the bare minimum everyone should do and your vote won't be contextualized by the candidates, it will look identical to all the other votes.
Lmao a centrist? 😂😂😂
A reasonable guess, but no. My politics aren't relevant, I'm asking you who you're gonna vote for.
Your politics are relevant because if you think that Republicans/Democrats both have enticing policies, your values are so so far from mine that we don't have the same political goals. So I won't be engaging in conversation with you as if we did.
There are many political tools at your disposal. Voting is one of them. Not voting does not affect change. Unless your political views are "I don't give a shit" voting is a positive use of your time even if you're doing other things outside of voting.
So again I ask: who are you voting for?
I never said I wasn't voting, but also I totally understand why many people do not. I already told you I don't want to chat about this, because I think you and I aren't aligned whatsoever and it's useless to discuss political strategy. It's weird that you keep demanding I answer a question ... like I care?? About answering you?
It's not about me, it's about giving the audience more information to work with when attempting to understand your arguments.
concern-trolling
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8715833
yup! I said that