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.
Voting at least here in the United States for president is stupid because the electoral college will get the candidate they want anyway. Eventually, I would like to leave the United States and taking small steps to accomplish that goal.
That’s not how that works, though. Each state tallies their populace’s votes and in most of them the winner will be given that state’s electors - one of the big scandals from '20 was the conspiracy to send fake electors to the vote certification instead of the ones representing the vote winner of the state.