That means you are free to vote for whomever. In CA, NY, NJ, CT, and other non-"battleground" states, there is no contest. Kamala Harris is going to win 100% of the Electoral College vote in those states. Every single Electoral College vote.
In states that are a lock for
Trump, the same logic applies. Trump will win no matter what, so voters
there need not feel trapped inside the two-party straitjacket.
Especially for people who would vote Democratic, which is futile.
In
2016, Donald Trump got 62,979,879 votes, but Hillary Clinton got
65,844,954 votes, 2.9 million more than Trump. So how did Trump become
president? He won in the Electoral College, 306 to 232. Hillary Clinton
got more votes than any other losing presidential candidate in US
history.
In 2000, George Bush got 50,456,002 votes, Al Gore
got 50,999,897 votes, 543,895 more than Bush. Bush became president,
elected by the Electoral College, 271 to 266. (Ralph Nader received
2,882,728 votes nationally, but ZERO Electoral College votes. That's
fair, right?)
Except for Nebraska and Maine, every state gives
ALL their Electoral College votes to the winner of the "popular" vote
in the state. They do NOT divide their Electoral College votes among the
candidates in proportion to how the PEOPLE of the state voted.
So
your vote for Harris does NOTHING to defeat Trump. Harris is going to
get ALL the Electoral College votes in your state, the votes that
actually elect the president.
You don't have to vote for an
accomplice to genocide and horrific crimes in Gaza, the West Bank,
Lebanon, and Yemen, where Israel is attempting to create another mass
starvation by bombing the sole port through which food enters Yemen that
is the difference between life and death for the people there.
For
as long as I've been alive, the Democratic Party has practiced a
politics of extortion. You "have" to vote for them or you get something
worse, the Republican. It has worked for decades to force people to vote
for them, and then the Democrats most often turn around and betray the
promises they made.
We live in a two-party dictatorship, a
cartel controlled by two parties that on the basic fundamentals are in
agreement- support corporate oligarchy (each party has its billionaire
supporters) and imperialism as foreign policy. Breaking the stranglehold
on power this political cartel has is an uphill struggle. But for
people in non-"battleground" states, the choice to break free is
actually easy. YOU WON'T BE HELPING ELECT TRUMP IF YOU DON'T SUBMIT TO
EXTORTION BY A SUPPORTER OF MASS MURDER.
I recommend you go on
youtube and watch interviews of Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party.
Stein and the Green Party represent decent human politics, which neither
of the two parties of the establishment's political cartel do. An
alternative can only be built slowly, with persistence.
[Five
times in U.S. history, so far, the loser got to be president: 1824,
1876, 1888, 2000, 2016. The U.S. is unique in the world. Yet it
constantly boasts that it is the World's Best Democracy, indeed stands
as the very SYMBOL of democracy.]
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