• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The world is more complicated than deciding who is the bad guys and who is the good guys.

    One party would let companies sell you cancerous pesticides and call it infant formula if the bribe is right.

    The other will spend all of their time and effort attacking marginal issues which don’t directly affect the bottom line of the fossil fuel companies.

    It looks like they’re trying to save the climate but, as it turns out, we’re not going to reverse centuries of industrial activity by providing $500 off a plug-in solar unit or making it so that pesticides can’t be applied 4 weeks before harvest instead of 2. They pick their battles, and their chosen battlefields are ones that are in no danger of disrupting the fossil fuel hegemony.

    You should still vote, just don’t buy into the idea that neo-liberals, R or D, are going to make meaningful changes which would harm fossil fuel companies. There are some leftest candidates running, support them or vote for the lesser evil.

    Not voting is always the wrong strategy.

    • jpreston1986@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The rule is, always vote for the left-most person running that has a chance at winning. Progressive socialists are the only way forward. But sometimes you gotta hold your nose and vote for the person that’s simply not running on the protect-the-pedophiles platform.