While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.
I am not a friend of Biden’s Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he’s too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and … well, disappointed in Biden or not, I’m voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe’s tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn’t want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.
There is a struggle to understand that not everyone who isn’t a partisan of your rival party, systematically a member of your own party
There is a struggle among people who say that to understand, the majority voting Biden aren’t voting his policies. They’re voting against full blown fascism.
It’s completely absurd to me that people can look at the choice between a president who is disappointing but ultimately status quo and fucking “I just want to be a dictator on day one” Hitler-lite and just shrug like one isn’t going to be the end of this nation as we know it and an active danger for several demographics.
Like we get it. You don’t like genocide Joe. Do you think throwing your vote away by not voting or voting your favorite green candidate is going to stop anyone who votes red from foaming at the mouth over the chance at eliminating any possibility of progress here?