Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) panned Democrats who are upping their criticisms of President Biden ahead of the November election, saying they might as well don a “MAGA hat.” Fetterman not…
Sure, but we also have to realize that we live in a country with a two-party system and a winner-take-all electoral college. If you’re not helping your candidate, you’re helping the opponent.
The key here is that it’s a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates based on the votes of who bothered to vote for them specifically, then further butchered via the EC. It’s a smaller, different pool of people that may elect someone that the actual majority prefer less, because part of the actual majority decided to play a different game entirely.
He’s got it backward and needs to look in the mirror.
i.e.,
There are people who defend Trump, no matter what.
and
There are people who defend Biden, no matter what.
Sure, but we also have to realize that we live in a country with a two-party system and a winner-take-all electoral college. If you’re not helping your candidate, you’re helping the opponent.
Although they’re perpetually marginalized, we do have third-party candidates.
Edit: Amusing how people downvote a neutral, factual statement.
They’ll never have a chance in a winner-take-all electoral college system.
You’ll never convince 160 million people to vote 3rd party. So a vote for 3rd party is a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates.
No, a vote 3rd party is a vote against your most tolerable of the two viable candidates.
a vote for any candidate is a vote against all other candidates.
The key here is that it’s a vote for the most popular of the 2 candidates based on the votes of who bothered to vote for them specifically, then further butchered via the EC. It’s a smaller, different pool of people that may elect someone that the actual majority prefer less, because part of the actual majority decided to play a different game entirely.
There’s always some excuse for progressives to shut up.