one of my favorite ways to cope with voting in an imperfect system is to vote my heart in the primary, and vote strategically with a harm reduction mindset in the general
AMEN! This is the same philosophy I employ. Primary = vote with your heart; General = do the most good you can, to the most people that you can, for as long as you can
You are so welcome :) I thought it was gonna be too close to the "myth of 'both sides are bad'" but it went a different route. Plus, the point bears repeating tbh
Back in 2016, a bunch of folks I know sat out the election or voted third party because they weren't feeling Hillary. Next thing you know, we got Trump, and our country's COVID response suffered big time. People died because of that "protest vote." That protest vote has a body count.
one of my favorite ways to cope with voting in an imperfect system is to vote my heart in the primary, and vote strategically with a harm reduction mindset in the general
AMEN! This is the same philosophy I employ. Primary = vote with your heart; General = do the most good you can, to the most people that you can, for as long as you can
this piece is so powerful thank u for writing it
You are so welcome :) I thought it was gonna be too close to the "myth of 'both sides are bad'" but it went a different route. Plus, the point bears repeating tbh
THE DINOSAURS
BAHAHAHA I loved that pic, I had to
Back in 2016, a bunch of folks I know sat out the election or voted third party because they weren't feeling Hillary. Next thing you know, we got Trump, and our country's COVID response suffered big time. People died because of that "protest vote." That protest vote has a body count.
This is an incredible way to put it - this has a body count. Thank you