• seanziepples@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m not going to tell anybody what to do or who to vote for but one of two things are very likely to happen at the end of this election:

    • Biden is re-elected. We continue with the status quo. We have a chance to make small incremental steps toward a better future.
    • Trump is elected. Two Supreme Court justices retire and Trump appoints two more. At that point he will have appointed FIVE of NINE Supreme Court justices. We have already seen what they’re willing to do. Imagine what they will do in the literal decades to come.

    Choose what you want to do, but take responsibility for your choice. Vote in your local elections. Big changes can happen from the ground up.

    • nexguy@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s the federal judge appointments that matter and almost nothing else. Most of what he does can be undone except for that… It would cause a generation of damage.

    • WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      "But take responsibility for your choices"strikes me as hilarious. Voting is not public. In a democracy with private polling,hardly anybody takes responsibility for their choices. Actually, zero percent. That is why the elected president is never popular for like the first year in office. Wouldn’t it be lovely if people assumed their responsibility for making choices, though? I would be on speaking terms with so many people from my past if they actually learned from their own stupidity.

    • peg@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      You won’t get big changes voting for Biden or Trump. Just more of the same.

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        5 months ago

        Pretty big changes have resulted from the previous Trump presidency. Any reason why you think this one will be ineffectual?

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        5 months ago

        Sorry, you will get big changes voting for Trump. becasue too much is already in place to make those types of changes happen. I dont agree with these changes, but to say they are the “same” is a dangerous opinion.

        The person at the top is needed to green light policy… those lower down present such policy… While this can seem boring it is important, since while by definition the president will be at the center of their party. If the party you vote for is most interested in vetoing everything of the other party… even if they agree with the law in general, there is no progress.

        Of course you must do more than just vote for the least bad president to make the change happen… However if you can’t at least do that you own the results os the OP said.

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        5 months ago

        The system protects itself. There is no path for a third party straight to the top. Split the vote sufficiently and the House decides.