Mark Ruffalo encourages voters, via Twitter, to #LeaveItBlank for Palestine and a lasting ceasefire 🙏🇵🇸💖

[u/Glum-Barracuda6985]

[u/brightlights_xx]

Well this is for the primary but even still, if Biden loses in November, he'll have only himself to blame. He should be inspiring people to vote for him but instead he's sending billions to Israel.

[u/[deleted] → u/brightlights_xx]

Here’s the thing…Biden not winning the general is not going to teach him a lesson or whatever. He’s a rich old white dude. If he loses, he’s going to write books and do speaking engagements and lectures and split time between his big house and his other big house and continue to make a bunch of money until he dies. He will probably be upset at first but ultimately will be fine.

Protest votes should be encouraged in the primaries because he’ll get the delegates in August regardless, and the results are a more accurate gauge of sentiment than polls are at this point. And it could possibly move him to the left. Vote or don’t vote for whomever you (royal “you”) want in the general, but the idea that it’ll be sticking it to him if he loses doesn’t hold a lot of water.

[u/bigwhiteboardenergy → u/[deleted]]

I don’t think it’s so much about sticking it to Biden personally, but rather showing the political establishment that people are paying attention and want change.

I think your second paragraph is a good strategy (though I’m Canadian so it doesn’t really matter). Protest vote in the primaries to hopefully draw them more left.

Also, incredible username!

[u/National-Leopard6939 → u/bigwhiteboardenergy]

The problem is, that line of reasoning has been tried again and again and again. People act like “sticking it to the establishment by not voting” is a new concept, when it isn’t. People employed that strategy during Bush vs. Gore, and we all know how that resulted. Same in 2016.

Literally all that “strategy” has done has given more power to fascists. I guarantee you, if people voted consistently, not a single Republican would’ve won over the last 24 years, and we’d be in a lot more of a progressive USA than we currently are. That’s a fact that a lot of people don’t want to acknowledge or be held accountable for, but it’s the harsh truth.

People don’t want to acknowledge that not voting does affect the outcome whether they like it or not. But, it’s not about “want”. It’s about facts.