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Cool, I could've voted for myself and achieved the same fucking effect that you did - ie nothing.
Because the state of political education in this country is terrifyingly low?
Because the majority of the population adheres to ghoulish positions or doesn't care?
Because when we had the opportunity to put in a genuine (if extremely mild) socialist candidate into the nomination seat, we couldn't get enough people to show up to the primaries, twice, despite said socialist candidate being immensely charismatic, well-informed on the issues, and morally goddamn spotless by politician standards?
The way to remedy that is to educate the population, raise awareness of the deeper causes of popular issues (both domestic and foreign), increase political involvement in the citizenry, and discourage political apathy. This should be combined with either a coordinated effort to take over the Dem party or form a third party when there's more than ten metaphorical goddamn seconds before the next election.
But on election day, if your thought was "I will cast a protest vote while the fascist is quite apparently within striking distance of victory", you're not really doing anything more than the third of America that sat at home with their thumbs up their goddamn asses as fascism was elected into all levers of power in this fucking country.
Did your candidate and their party do this to a level that is acceptable to you?
Does "vote blue no matter who" aid in accomplishing this?
Fuck no. Which is why sitting on our asses isn't acceptable.
YES, UNAMBIGIOUSLY, unless you have some sort of brainrotted notion that fascism is a good thing. Fuck's sake.