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Voting for someone who will actively help kill your relatives, and then likely try to deport you personally from this country, would be worse.
i'm related to people who literally snuck across the mexican border themselves escaping their own violence and they full heartidly support trump and his efforts to close the border and turn away asylum seekers.
talk to any latino over the age of 50; especially mexican-americans protestants or cubano expats in florida and you'll find that they're a huge minority if not the majority.
it doesn't matter where you come from or how you got here; the only thing that matters is what's in your head today and it's very easy to manipulate that.
your family's death is going to be in your head today and the off chance of getting deported tomorrow is a second thought at best; especially when you don't believe that it can happen to you.
The logical thing to do then. Well as logical as that situation gets, is just to not vote. Punishing one politician by voting for another that's worse on every policy. Sends mixed to no message at all. And is just irrational self injuring flailing. But humans are very skilled at being irrational.
the logical thing to do is to understand where people are at right now; not where you want them to be or believe where they should be.
succumbing the pressures levied upon us has pressured us away from trying to understand our fellow countrymen and turned the american political discourse into little more than looking for an opportunity to dunk on your opponent or running into defeatist straw men like the one you've shared.
carving out the tiniest of releaf cuts from that pressure lays bare the reasons why kamala and trump are at 50/50 despite literally billions of dollars and generations of liberalization that should be helping kamala more.
Funny that you hypocritically whine about strawman when you start out with one. It is your MO though.
Understanding "where they are", doesn't make their actions any more logical or less self-harming. And implying that someone who calls their actions illogical and self-harming doesn't know where they are coming from. Well if that's your best argument, and it is. It's pretty laughable.
what straw man was presented here?
Is it easy to think logically while the country you live in will not do anything other than fund the death of your family?
Also, while I think logically, you have clearly explained that you cannot vote for an American party without supporting "Voting for someone who will actively help kill your relatives...", because "Virtually all the pols in DC are responsible for spending to support Israel".
I think I can understand a bunch of Muslim immigrants, disliked by many for one or both of those features, feeling unable to make a good choice when given a choice that is - as you have said - no choice. Add ongoing grief and I, for one, can find it within me to extend compassion to them. You are named Boddhisatva, so would suspect you know the teachings of Lord Buddha, also.