If you want to cast a protest vote against Biden you are welcome to, but I do think we should wrestle with the reality that doing so increases the odds that Trump will have an opportunity to appoint about 240 more far-right judges who will strike down every policy you care about.
...and let Thomas and Alito retire to be replaced by Trump with young idealogues who will hold down those seats for the next 30+ years. Whereas under Biden + Dem Senate they're old enough that they might just die naturally offering the opportunity to flip the SC (and allow Sotomayor to retire).
How does one justify protest voting against one bad policy and, as a byproduct, helping elect a man who will implement every bad policy?
It's worse than just judges. bsky.app/profile/dbda...
I'm hearing lots of rumbling that reporting on #Project2025 (Republican and Heritage Foundation) may not be "real" or just "fear mongering". Here's the link - read it yourself. It's real, and we should all be afraid if Republicans take over in 2025. www.project2025.org/playbook/
The fourth pillar of Project 2025 is our 180-day Transition Playbook and includes a comprehensive, concrete transition plan for each federal agency. Only through the implementation of specific action ...
The protest voters performatively care about other people but actually don't. They believe that they will somehow be immune to the consequences of their decision. Could be because they're rich and white, could be because they think they already have it as bad as it can get, who knows.
Like Cannon
Perhaps the DNC should have mentioned this to Joe Biden and suggested that he not spend over half a year materially supporting genocide.
Do YOU care about those policies, by chance?
It’s really that simple.
If we can never do better than Biden how does that not happen?