cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17869503

I know I’m going against the grain here, I’m obviously no Harris lover, but also I’d prefer to be allowed to continue existing. If that’s controversial in leftist spaces then maybe I don’t want to spend any more time in leftist spaces.

    • KammicRelief@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      I think it’s more the third party voters (which effectively are Republican voters, by taking away Dem votes). And abstainers, which, ditto.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        10·
        2 months ago

        Third party votes and abstainers for the presidency are by no measures ‘taking away’ votes from anyone.

        It only can be that way if there are zero Republican voters voting third party or abstaining for any reason. We know this isn’t true. The Democratic Party’s express electoral strategy is to appeal to and attract those voters, ostensibly at a greater return rate than voters they turn off or drive to third parties.

        It’s a risky strategy and it failed once before in 2016.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 months ago

        this was proven to be a straw man since the report than jill stein siphons away more trump voters than kamala voters.

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 months ago

        As someone who supports third party, there was no chance of me voting for Kamala this election so you can stop with the made-up arguments

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Are you saying that 2/3 of the country vote Republican? In that case, how is it possible for the Democrats to ever win?

        • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          The Republican strategy is to contest the election in every state, county, and polling place. We need high voter turnout to prevent contested elections all over the country. No matter where people live, even California, our votes matter.

          • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 months ago

            So you think trump will spend money trying to to flip my district that went 78% for Biden in my state that went 63.5% for Biden so I cannot exercise my constitutionally protected right to do anything but support a corpo prosecutor.

    • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      The electoral college favors low population states. Republicans historically do well in low population states. In order to correct for this overrepresentation, Democrats need high voter turnout. So not voting or or voting third party depresses that high voter turnout Democrats need to win. This is why tankies and accelerationists spend so much time falsely conflating Kamala and Trump. They know they need to discourage as many people from voting for Kamala as possible to get Trump elected. So Vote!