I'll walk 10 minutes to my polling site to leverage about 12 bytes' worth of political speech, but I'm not going to harbor any delusions that voting is a pathway to anything at all. A number on a paper about an opinion is just that, nothing more. It does not automatically convert into anything; it must be manually converted with force or threat of force.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure. I want to see a big number for Jill and Claudia because that number can lead to more people becoming comfortable leaving the two-party system. We need to grow as a movement and that means getting a lot of Libs deprogrammed.

Also I'm assuming most people here are voting in local elections or ballot measures. Your vote for School Board is more impactful than your vote for President. Why not give PSL a vote while you're there?

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that number can lead to more people becoming comfortable leaving the two-party system.

I vote third party for that reason. I started voting third party with that expectation multiple elections ago, but I no longer have any delusion that people are going to follow the way I think just because I put it concretely.

I'm already planning on doing as you suggest, but without any belief in the consequentiality of it. Ultimately, my state will be won by a margin of 500k+ votes, and my vote for the PSL will mostly just make me feel good, and be able to say i-voted for PSL .

As someone who voted third party in the 2016 election and watched absolutely nothing change and nothing was even learned, I'm telling you to put your hope in more productive places.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

There's always a chance that it'll be interpreted as greens and psl taking votes off republicans. Then the Dems don't even have to pretend that anyone is trying to pull them left. It's never too late for horseshoe throwing time.