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Gavin Newsom is free to earn my vote? I don't see how your question is relevant - the election is years out.
"If those people wanted food to eat they should have earned it, otherwise it's not my problem"
That makes about as much sense as shifting the conversation into terms of some politician having to "earn your vote" and otherwise it's not your problem what happens.
If Gavin Newsom is running against Hitler, it's kind of important to vote for Newsom, whether or not he has "earned your vote."
If you want to know the non-toxic way of executing this approach, Ralph Nader has written an excellent book about how to put pressure on people in power and what he believes is the way forward out of the horror we find in our current political system (even predating the current horror). Basically, you pressure them to adopt specific policies by forming up into a bloc with other voters and refusing to vote unless some specific policy change you want to see happens. The advantages this has over staying home and saying "they haven't earned it" include:
There are a lot of other things in addition obviously, but if you're going to "protest vote," that is the way I would recommend to do it.
Your country would vote for Hitler, if he said the right things. That's what he did to gain power in Germany.
This "we're desperate, just vote for my candidate, nothing matters, it's the only option we got" is how they do politics in authoritarian countries. And the candidate turns out to be a controlled opposition, destined to lose.
People need do more than the NPC in a RPG saying "just vote" and be done with their responsibility.
Also, spare us the sanctimonious bullcrap. This isn't reddit.
"Just vote" is kind of an election day strategy.
The whole part where the actual work happens to put a decent person on the ballot instead of corporate drone n+1 is right now!