Just going to post this cartoon from 2016 which is unrelated
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Can't y'all just for for an independent? Why do you have to pick from two evils?
This is probably one of the only sites on the fediverse where you're going to find people who campaigned for Gloria la Riva
Don't worry friend I will not be voting for either Hitler
That's just stooping to their level. That makes you triple hitler
I'm having a hard time keeping track of all these Hitlers
:oops-all-hitlers:
That Twilight Zone episode, but when you look in the mirror, you're thirty goddam hitlers.
failing to vote for hitler 1 is a vote for hitler 2
failing to vote for hitler 2 is a vote for hitler 1
a vote for neither hitler is a vote for both hitlers, which is a double hitler, and also voter fraud
Depending on the state, we can. I'm guessing the staggering majority of hexbear users who are in the US will either not vote or will vote third party.
good people don't want to run for Supreme Engineer of the Babykillotron 400
hellworld
The American people only have the illusion of agency in their so-called democracy. No one can win the presidential election unless the ruling class allows them to be in a position to. An independent that could win in that system would just be a choice between 3 evils instead of 2.
Voting third party isn't exactly as easy as it sounds in this country either it's not like everyone could just write in someone's name and they'd win
if you mean "why can't america as a whole do that" it's because we're run by a corporation wearing two trenchcoats
In contrast to Germany, the U.S.A. had a constitution which was democratic from the start. And its ruling class managed, particularly during the imperialist era, to have the democratic forms so effectively preserved that by democratically legal means, it achieved a dictatorship of monopoly capitalism at least as firm as that which Hitler set up with tyrannic procedures. This smoothly functioning democracy, so-called, was created by the Presidential prerogative, the Supreme Court’s authority in constitutional questions, the finance monopoly over the Press, radio, etc., electioneering costs, which successfully prevented really democratic parties from springing up beside the two parties of monopoly capitalism, and lastly the use of terroristic devices (the lynching system). And this democracy could, in substance, realize everything sought by Hitler without needing to break with democracy formally. In addition, there was the incomparably broader and more solid economic basis of monopoly capitalism.