George Takei's Based Voting Take [Rule}
George Takei's Based Voting Take [Rule}
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A tweet from the George Takei Twitter account which states:
"A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.
It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.
But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.
I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.
Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.
There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too."
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The last paragraph I find particularly powerful and something more people really should take into account.
Hoo boy. Against my better judgment, I'll wade into this pool.
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If voting for either party gets you the same result, fascists wouldn't be so focused on elections and trying so hard to take the vote away.
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Withholding your vote doesn't do anything. When has losing an election pushed either party left?
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Voting doesn't prevent you from engaging in other forms of direct action.
Both parties suck. People will needlessly suffer and die no matter who wins. But there are also people who will suffer and die under one party but not the other, and the same can't be said the other way around. Our democracy is fundamentally flawed, but voting is a tool at our disposal, and we're in no position to turn anything down.
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In a democracy, if there is no alternative we have to vote for the lesser of the evil. It's better to keep things worse, than to make it more worse, if there is no alternative. If an alternative is there, then absolutely. We should all be encouraging an alternative system in a democracy. But if nothing's is available, then this.
35I think using a vote strategically is fine, but I also think not voting out of protest is fine.
The point of voting is it is your choice, and the logic for how each individual determines how to use it is not my concern.
Each vote accounts for so little impact on the political process that individually they are literally meaningless, but at the same time, that sentiment being held by too many people literally breaks the concept of voting from functioning entirely. It is almost paradoxical.
I think it is best to keep moral arguments and opinions about how other people vote to a minimum, and try to keep the conversation more about the candidates themselves.
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5So basically I'm voting democrat so our government doesnt start killing (more) vulnerable people. What a great system
3Voting out of anger or protest is what got Obama elected twice, Trump and Biden once..so far.
2I hope this cunt dies really fucking soon, if him and shiner wind up being the last TOS crew members alive I'll be really disappointed
1Seriously? It's a bland "lesser evil" tweet from Facebook zaddy who is still using the nazi bird site in Nov 2023. also 11/26 is a weird time for a "get out and vote!" tweet. did something happen?
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