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Uhh.... Are you saying you'd vote for Hitler if the other option was Mussolini?
What are you trying to say here? That it's better to "take the higher ground" and just NOT vote? Giving the hardcore right-winger voters an even larger margin by which they elect the horrible option?
Not voting at all is literally he worst of all available options in the vast majority of democratic election systems.
Note: if I'm wrong, and not voting actually sends a message in the US, please educate me. The systems I know count the votes as the percentage of valid votes given, which means that not voting always gives advantage to the right side.
You're brainwashed. Election boycotts are a tried and true method of political participation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_boycott
If a large portion of the electorate boycotts an election, it doesn't legitimize either side. Even though one candidate ends up winning by a silly margin, that margin yields no political capital.
Depending on the voting mechanism and scale.
Have you read the article you linked, Mr. Super Not Brainwashed?
That only works in two scenarios:
There was NOWHERE NEAR enough interest from US voters for anybody sane to have any hope of the latter happening, and the US system doesn't give a fuck about people abstaining.
Election boycott is the offside trap of the election system - if it works, it works, if it doesn't you just gave the opponent a massive advantage.