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Why do you care if the person you voted for wins?
Outside of "not letting the other person win", you should vote for who you align with, or who represents you best.
If more people stopped caring about voting for "the viable candidate", we'd probably see a third party in American politics...
Because the policies those people put into effect have very real consequences for citizens. Especially when one candidate is openly hostile towards significant marginalized groups in society and wishes to bring them harm. This isn't a team sport. This is a struggle for survival for many who stand to lose a lot of rights and freedoms for simply being who they were born as.
So yes, we should care who wins. Those two people are your options. Third party is not.
That's not what I mean. What I mean is that people won't vote for a candidate they agree with because they're not going to win.
That should be painfully obvious. Similar sentiments are obvious on Reddit, Twitter, even Mastodon. Why is Lemmy so tone-deaf and blinded when it comes to opposing opinions?