Lesh
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NonsenseIt’s simply true. If I don’t vote at all, does Donald Trump gain a vote? Does Joe Biden gain a vote? No. The same is true if I vote for a third party candidate.
Any argument otherwise has to begin with the premise that each person’s vote already belongs to the Democrat or Republican candidates. You may be content to consider yourself beholden to the two major parties, but not all of us are.
None of this even gets into how useless voting for either candidate might be with the winner take all system, depending on what state I’m in, in large part because so many people are willing to keep voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’. There’s also the way people keep worrying about the presidency while continuing to vote in crappy career Congresspeople.
My vote is my own. It is not something the big parties own and can lose, it is something they have to try to gain every election.
Any vote that is not against Trump is a vote FOR him.
Anyone not voting is also voting for him