I voted for the “harm reduction” vote in the 2016 Presidential election. Mar Roxas wasn’t great, but he was better than Duterte. Surprise, surprise, Duterte won. Hundreds of thousands died.
For the 2022 Presidential election, I voted for a principled vote for Leody de Guzman. Surprise, surprise, the Marcos dynasty returns to power.
Then people are treating Biden/Trump round 2 as top priority. Newsflash, if democracy was at stake in the election, then you don’t have democracy. I’ve been watching the Biden administration from afar. Biden, Trump, they’re the same. Same killer police. Same concentration camps at the border. Same prison industrial complex. Same trans genocide. Same abortion bans. No meaningful climate action. And now, a genocide in Gaza. Biden doesn’t care. Voting isn’t harm reduction.
When there is an election, in most democracies not voting is allowed and should be viewed as one of the decisions that democracy allows. Its not the anarchist choice, but just one of the many democratic choices.
And I dont agree on “Trump&Biden are the same”. I can see why there might be similar outcomes (maybe in some situations the same) from them being in power, but I thb another Trump presidency is super scary and unpredictable on a level that Biden will never be.
I think voting and discussions about voting take way to much space in relation to the impact voting has.
When it comes to my country, yes, Trump and Biden are the same. The same unaccountable overlords who plunders our country in the name of Wall Street. It literally doesn’t matter to us who is in charge.
That is probably true. I think for people living in the so called US it would not be the same tho