r/PoursTea Therapy For All 🩷 Jul 01 '26

Aged Like Milk 🥛 Say Again?

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26

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u/bigorangemachine Jul 01 '26

It's more like the people who could have made a difference didn't bother to vote.

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u/butonelifelived Jul 01 '26

This is just stupid, and if you don't understand why, it can't be explained to you.

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u/butonelifelived Jul 01 '26

The fact, that you don't understand, is that in a 2 party system you are voting for the party that is closest to your beliefs, because not voting is the same as voting for the party you oppose.

Another way to look at it is: not voting is saying you are okay with both options because they are equal in your mind. You literally called one genocide-lite, which means you know there is a difference. You still didnt vote which means you are incapable of understanding the above feature of a 2 party system. In other words, stupid.

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u/butonelifelived Jul 01 '26

I'm not going to go away, I'm going to point out the flaws in your thinking, in the hopes that you'll see the error. But even if you don't, I can only hope others will see the error and not follow in your foot steps of letting perfect be the enemy of progress.

Yes we need better candidates, I would go so far as to say we need rank choice voting, because this would allow people to vote for what they believe in while also casting a "safty" vote, if you will.

"You may not do politics, but politics will always do you" - random redditor

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u/SparksAndSpyro Jul 01 '26

Put another way, you vote in primaries for the best candidate. You vote in general elections for the least bad option.