[orange dude, angry, fist raised] I will protest against both sides of the evil capitalist elites that are ruining society by voting for an anti-system extreme!
[pink gal, looking candid] Since your protest is based on human values and a desire for more social justice, this means you’re going to vote far left?
[pink gal, looking scared] Isn’t that right?…
[orange dude starts laughing so hard tears comes from his eyes and his hairpiece starts flying]
Protest voters helped elect Trump and I won’t be convinced otherwise, nor will I stop holding them accountable.
I don’t love most of my Democrat politicians either, but at least I voted against what we have right now.
Illegal vote suppression elected Trump, but even if it hadn’t, you should blame Democrats before blaming people who voted for third party candidates. Now, if you’re talking about people who “protest voted” by voting for Trump (in both the primaries and the election), then sure. Those people did, in fact, play an instrumental part in electing him.
Why blame Democrats? Well, beyond just kinda being Republican-lites:
Democrats are the bare minimum “harm reduction” party, and I don’t bare any ill will toward people who voted for them rather than a party that would actually try to effect change, but the opposite mindset - blaming third party voters for not voting for Democrats - is very shortsighted. And as third party voters have never had the power to enact RCV or STAR voting or otherwise improve the system, blaming them instead of the Democrats who have had that power is inane.
I’ve voted for a Democrat every single presidential election that I’ve been able to, but I honestly wish I hadn’t. I’d much rather there be more visibility for third parties, and for more people to feel empowered to vote for third party candidates.
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I guess this comic makes no sense for countries locked in a 2 party system.
In many other global north countries (those with a normal electoral system), there’s a far leftist party struggling at 1% while the far right is chilling at 30%, and racists come up with silly excuses like “it was an anti-system protest vote” while the far right politicians are backed by the most “systemic” people there are, billionaires.
Nah democrats lost an election that was handed to them on a sliver plater.
The most important job of a political party is to energize the electorate, something the democrats have failed to do for the better part of 20 years.
If every 3rd party voted D in this race it wouldn’t not have saved the this election. Democrats shot themselves in the foot by allowing Genocide Joe to attempt to run again (it’s also highly likely he knew about his prostate cancer at this point) and then using the less than useless strat of appealing to moderates and Republicans.
Their incompetence was highlighted by their less-than-useless strategy of trying to appeal to moderates and conservatives by appearing on stage with people that the Democrats electorate hate, like George Bush and Liz Cheney, which resulted in less moderate and conservative votes than from 2020.