When you lose your conscience, you lose me.

[mmonk]

The bridges you burn are your responsibilty. The trick is will you be able to repair them? It's up in the air.

[Kalidurga]

1. mmonk this is a very important idea.

right now it is up to a certain camp to win us back, not for us to make amends with them.

[jwirr]

4. Exactly.

[bigtree]

2. every election we get these ultimatums

...from folks dismayed their choice lost the election.

What you do is your own responsibility. Most folks will gather their pride in the general and vote for the party choice that best represents them. Holdouts don't usually make as much as a ripple.

[daleanime]

3. You so right, I don't know what this....

sexist, racist, condescending, communist voter was thinking. Can you find it in your big progressive heart to forgive me?

[CalvinballPro]

5. This is what cracks me up about "protest votes." Vote counters are not mind-readers.

There is literally no metric for "votes not cast." None. Sitting home does not tell anyone anything about what you think.

People are free to use their vote as they see fit, but that individuality does not change what makes a good decision and what makes a bad decision. Not voting is always a bad decision.

[Kalidurga]

6. You aren't good at this.

Most people will vote. Most people will not vote for a fascist.

[CalvinballPro]

7. In fact, a whole nation did once. We had a World War about it, you may recall.

[Kalidurga]

8. Oh yeah he got a majority oops no he didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933

Almost 60% of the 80% of people who voted didn't vote for the fascist. Hitler did get the most votes however.