Comment by aaomidi
1 year ago
I'm not sure what I will do, but I'm not voting for Trump either way.
There is a lot written about civil disobedience through not partaking in electoral politics, and that's _likely_ the direction I'm going to go if Biden does not change his tone (and hopefully actually do a proper apology for his actions so far).
This sucks, and I'll participate in local and even congressional elections, but for president I can not really find myself voting for Biden. I do not expect myself to agree 100% with any candidate, but there are certain red-lines that a candidate can not cross. I have a few of those, being anti-abortion is not something I can tolerate in any candidate. Being pro-mass-killing-looking-like-genocide is also one. I suspect this feeling is not unique to me.
Personally regardless of any other stance I will always vote along the abortion lines. I would hope others would be able to prioritize that as well. I dont want to see the US turn into a theocratic dictatorship.
That's why I'm still going to be voting in congressional elections.
Abortion is probably one of the leading causes of the demographic destruction (and by extension, destruction of political influence) of the black American community.
https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/02/25/abortion-the-over...
Not only religious fanatics oppose it in its current form in America.
I am for choice of people to decide if they have kids. These arguments have no effect on me.
Far and away the greatest opposition to abortion is religious in nature. Certainly other groups might oppose it for varying reasons but they are an extreme minority.
I would even venture to say that those other groups oppose it in part because of cultural effects of religious ethics infecting the rest of society.