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Unless Trump fucks it up and causes Israel to lose. Unless Trump triggers a popular backlash like he did in 2020 and causes another historical protest movement. Unless Democrats become a real opposition party again and refuse to help him do genocide.
We can't actually predict what will happen, so I'm just voting with my conscience instead of trying to play 5D chess with my vote.
You don't need 5D chess to know that Trump would be worse. We have already seen it. Only last time he had sane people limiting his destruction. Now the lunatics are running the asylum.
We already saw that he didn't destroy democracy or start WW3. You can credit that to "sane people" limiting him but the fact is that what we saw wasn't the Fourth Reich. It was just a shitty Republican president.
The first cyanide pill didn't kill me, so the second won't either...
Alternatively, the sky didn't fall last time so it probably won't fall this time.
If you remember that parable, the sky actually did fall that last time.
Also, for the 1.2 million Americans who died from Covid, the sky did fall last time.
If you remember the lesson of that parable, no one believes the chicken when the sky falls and the chicken has no one to blame but himself. You can't keep saying it's the most important election of our lifetimes because we stop believing it.
And maybe the sky falls this time, but it's the chicken's fault that we don't believe it.
The lesson is also not to ignore a message of obvious danger because the messenger is flawed.
That's definitely not why people use Chicken Little as an Aesop. The lesson is that if you lie over and over, people won't believe you when it matters.
I certainly don't.
Then judge by actions, not words. Since you care so much about Palestinians, how about voting for a candidate that is part of an administration that allows them to seek asylum in the US like Harris. Meanwhile Trump's whole thing is expelling immigrants and he initiated a Muslim ban the last time he was in office. Surely saving some Palestinians vs saving none is worth a vote?
Would you vote for half your family to be killed so the other half could maybe be spared? How do you choose which family members get to live and die? How would you live with yourself.
I plan to resist whoever is elected. Maybe you'll join me, instead of just waiting another four years to vote again.
In this scenario there is no third option where nobody dies. Either half your family dies or they all die. Sometimes all the power you have is saving who you can.
By all means, resist whoever is elected. Harris would cause fewer problems to fight over. By letting Trump win, you're just making it harder on everyone.
What you can do is take your struggle outside the ballot box, because there's no hope in electoralism. No matter who wins we can defeat them, and at least if Trump wins the liberals will join us instead of just sitting around at home to wait for the next election.
There is hope for the Palestinians who would be given asylum under Harris, but apparently your ego is more important to you than they are.