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Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Jordan_Jordan@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.

My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.

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[–] Du3K@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If I dont vote Biden, it's a vote for Trump. If I dont vote Trump it's a vote for Biden. cancels out.

Voting 3rd party is like voting for 3 people it seems, I'll take advantage of that

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same. I voted 3rd party last presidential election cycle and it was cool because according to partisans (and their "support my team or you love Satan",) this means I also got to vote for Hillary and Trump at the same time! Separate people assured me of this several times, so it must be true. Isn't democracy great?

In all seriousness, I'd like to see a moderate party run a candidate. "~~No Labels~~" Forward (the party that's totally-not-a-party, founded by Andrew Yang) seems promising.

[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You mean the forward party? "No Labels" is something different.

Edit: No Labels do market themselves as "moderate" though. But from what I've seen, it's more of a "corporations' dystopian version of bipartisanship" moderate rather than "roughly middle-ground views of average Americans" moderate.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

shit, you're right. I had the two confused.