• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I suppose I should’ve said it shouldn’t be, people can and do of course think all kinds of silly and illogical things. It’s a poor strategic choice at the individual and group level to identify with a candidate but to each their own. Propaganda gets us all.

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      8 months ago

      Voting is not about putting your support behind a candidate

      this is the bit that i found most objectionable. almost all the rhetoric around an election talks about support: financial, popular, or political.

      voting is definitely supporting a candidate, pretty much any way you slice it.

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        8 months ago

        almost all the rhetoric around an election talks about support: financial, popular, or political

        Yes, it’s to the candidtates benefit for voters to identify with candidates, it’s not generally in the voters interest.

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      8 months ago

      , it’s a strategic decision taken to advance your goals.

      this part also assumed universal goals. one of my goals is to smash capital and the state. the democrat party will most definitely be part of that. voting for them doesn’t advance my goals.