[orange dude, angry, fist raised] I will protest against both sides of the evil capitalist elites that are ruining society by voting for an anti-system extreme!
[pink gal, looking candid] Since your protest is based on human values and a desire for more social justice, this means you’re going to vote far left?
[pink gal, looking scared] Isn’t that right?…
[orange dude starts laughing so hard tears comes from his eyes and his hairpiece starts flying]
A long road from the first sketch, kept iterating because I wanted him to look like he was slapping his knee but every attempt looked like he was slapping a ghost instead. One day, I’ll learn to do hands right. One day…
Hey, AI can’t get them right, why should we? ;)
Who says OP isn’t an AI? The evidence is right there.
Caving to the idea that there are two sides instead of a brevity of political choices that are constantly suppressed is major defeatist energy in the same way that’s depicted in this comic.
Protest voters helped elect Trump and I won’t be convinced otherwise, nor will I stop holding them accountable.
I don’t love most of my Democrat politicians either, but at least I voted against what we have right now.
I guess this comic makes no sense for countries locked in a 2 party system.
In many other global north countries (those with a normal electoral system), there’s a far leftist party struggling at 1% while the far right is chilling at 30%, and racists come up with silly excuses like “it was an anti-system protest vote” while the far right politicians are backed by the most “systemic” people there are, billionaires.
I wish the US had a system like that. It’s unfortunate that even a more inclusive voting system suffers from a surplus of voters fueled by hate and selfishness, but here in the US even protest votes for the far left play into the far right’s hands since all 3rd party votes together wouldn’t even come close to rivaling the 2 established parties.
Even if all the far-left parties only get 1% or 2%, if the moderate left arty doesn’t have a clean majority, they need the votes of those far left parties to form a government, and thus the far left parties can negotiate some stuff. It’s not useless to vote third party.
Except in the US the moderate left generally chooses to cater to the right when they need to bolster their numbers, rather than the far left. It makes sense given that our current Democratic party is far closer to the moderate right than the far left. We’d need to elect new incoming lefter-leaning democratic leaders across all levels of government over the course of decades to get the party as a whole to tilt leftward rather than rightward when a clean majority is needed. It’s still the most viable option, but it’ll be a lot of work to achieve.
Nah democrats lost an election that was handed to them on a sliver plater.
The most important job of a political party is to energize the electorate, something the democrats have failed to do for the better part of 20 years.
If every 3rd party voted D in this race it wouldn’t not have saved the this election. Democrats shot themselves in the foot by allowing Genocide Joe to attempt to run again (it’s also highly likely he knew about his prostate cancer at this point) and then using the less than useless strat of appealing to moderates and Republicans.
Their incompetence was highlighted by their less-than-useless strategy of trying to appeal to moderates and conservatives by appearing on stage with people that the Democrats electorate hate, like George Bush and Liz Cheney, which resulted in less moderate and conservative votes than from 2020.
