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I used to not vote because all politicians are evil. Someone pointed out that if everyone picks the lesser of two evils then things are going to get less evil. I’ve voted every opportunity since.
Corporations are just legal structure organizing people together to do something. The soup kitchen, local artisan, person cutting hair out of their house, they all set up an LLC to operate under. They didn’t instantly become evil.
But if I need to buy a blender, plywood, or underwear (my shopping list this weekend), I’m going to have to buy it from a corporation. If I could buy it from a less evil corp then hopefully I make things less evil.
Voting for lesser evil just slows down the evil, it doesn't reverse it. It's still going in the wrong direction.
If people would vote for good that’d be a choice. Consistently voting for “less evil” works towards that goal - having good candidates.
If “more evil” candidates keep winning, what message does that send to candidates?
Yeah. Lots of people didn’t vote because we had two evils. The greater evil won…
You cant run a candidate who supports a far right wing genocide from the left and expect to win. Its really that simple. It'll probably be that simple next time as well.
What we need is Russian and israeli influence kept out of the US government with no exceptions. Zionist influence on the dems is why Harris lost, not some 'voters dont understand that voting for evil is just necesssary' like you pretend. Stop telling the voters they need to be ok with war crimes. Thats cowardly BS. I'll never be OK with murder and you shouldnt ever be either.
Russia and Israel do not control the US Empire. Both have a minor fraction of the power and wealth of the US, it is not that easy to influence US policy. The US's relations with other countries are dominated by the US.
The US props up Israel not because the US is controlled by Israel, but because Israel secures the US's interests in the Middle East via massive terror campaigns.