As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

Edit 2: This blew up, it’s a little overwhelming right now but I do intent on replying to everybody that took the time to comment. Just need to get in the right headspace.

  • gramophone_mind@lemmy.mlSvenska
    111·
    5 days ago

    I mean it does doesn’t it? Trump supports can also threaten not to vote for him if he continues bad policies.

    But we are talking about Harris supporters here. If Americans don’t even have a real vote with real value then what would stop Harris or Trump policies that will eventually render everyone in Gaza dead? If you can’t even speak to politicians with your own vote and if they don’t even value your vote, then how are we going to achieve anything?

    Harris is the one losing votes for her shitty policy. It’s not the fault of the voter. It’s the fault of the candidate.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      33·
      4 days ago

      You’re absolutely right, in an ideal situation.

      But as you also said, “we are talking about Harris supporters here”, so my original comment is kind of irrelevant to the topic of the post, probably. I’ll stand down in this context. 😁