Elizabeth Warren’s first priority as president: ending government corruption

You refusing to vote will change absolutely nothing. It's a purely symbolic, useless act which only serves to make you feel better about yourself. Our system is fundamentally broken and we're denied anything beyond a binary choice between bad options. But your vote is the only possible means you have to directly influence change in our society, and refusing to vote for the least destructive outcome available because it's not an ideal choice is honestly pretty selfish.

There are tens of thousands of real people suffering in concentration camps because of the fascists running the current administration, and you're willing to just sit it out if you don't get a progressive candidate? Look, I really want Warren or Bernie as well, but there is zero reason whatsoever to not vote for any Democrat over any Republican other than self-indulgent stubbornness. You aren't going to solve the two party system by refusing to play, you're only going to be complicit in refusing to do your part to help make the country better.

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