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[–]aryngeous 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Please don't. The guy is President already and the censorship/woke politics hasn't gotten better, it's only gotten worse and will continue to get worse. He's part of the problem because he does the same thing from the other side. Also, because he's so terrible a lot of reasonable people who recoil from woke politics (which is the vast majority) still side with the far left.

What we need is a reasonable third alternative. I'm considering voting for Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian candidate.

[–]Reimu 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The guy is President already and the censorship/woke politics hasn't gotten better, it's only gotten worse and will continue to get worse.

But most of the increase in censorship/woke politics are the establishment's response to him and his supporters. At the very least he has harped on and brought attention to big tech censorship and biased media. Throwing your vote away in some meaningless protest is the definition of a futile action. So I'm supposed to look at someone who publicly declares that big tech censorship is a problem, and someone who represents the establishment that promulgates and enables said censorship, and conclude one of these isn't a worse evil? Protest votes are almost always pointless.

He's part of the problem because he does the same thing from the other side.

???

Also, because he's so terrible a lot of reasonable people who recoil from woke politics (which is the vast majority) still side with the far left.

This is not my experience at all. If anything, the far left getting crazier and crazier over the past few years has scared more people away from them. Don is whacky but he's kept it pretty constant. The left has done noting but slowly raise the intensity of their derangement since 2015. November will prove me right here.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian candidate.

What are your thoughts on her candidacy?

[–]aryngeous 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She's the only one who's promising freedom of everyone, instead of engaging in right/left identity politics. She's the only one running on traditional American values. That being said, I haven't decided yet. It's early days. I could still go for Biden. No way I'm going for Trump.