Yeah I mean, it’s not like Catholicism is the only flavor of Christianity.

The whole reason the USA even exists today is because a bunch of shitty religious people got ousted from England.

I know a lot of people still view the Pope as the head of Christianity but there are many Christians who would not see it that way. Many who would dismiss the Pope with a wave of the hand and not a care in the world.

The evangelical right wing Christian movement in America certainly does not give a fuck about the Pope based on what I’ve seen.

Same thing that’s been going on for millenia now. Humans being humans, look around the globe and through history. This is not new and we are not special.

Sucks though.

I know you won’t see eye to eye with me on this and you probably won’t admit to yourself that you’re helping MAGA but that is what you’re doing by not voting Dem.

You’re just looking for a reason to not vote or cast your vote into a lake of fire and feel good about it. Well you shouldn’t feel good about it.

If we had ranked choice voting or another kind of system then yeah by all means go for it. Sadly that’s not the reality you and I live in here and that means a vote for a third party just causes a spoiler effect for whichever of the two main party candidates are closer aligned politically to the third party.

I guess that’s better than not voting at all though.

Bro, I get it, but I’m a pragmatist more than an idealist. I hate our electoral system with a fiery passion too. I’m just operating in reality and trying to get the least bad outcome we can with what we have.

Yo if you want to support the GOP and the MAGA movement that is your right. Just saying I’d per prefer to have a Dem in office vs cutting my nose off to spite my face.

As long as you realize you’re actively helping MAGA then by all means you do you.

You can draw a line from the Tories and Whigs at the USA’s founding to the modern day Republican and Democrat parties.

They didn’t just spring from the ether, they were birthed from internal party politics. Why do you think the most progressive people we have in our Congress are Democrats or, in cases like the incredibly rare independent like Bernie, are working with the Dems?

It’s not a fluke. Being surprised that sitting on your hands and pouting that the party won’t pay attention to a person who won’t do anything to help them win is crazy.

What’s your pitch? “hey as someone who will do literally nothing to improve your odds of being elected you should pay attention to me!”. No, it doesn’t work like that.

As a progressive / person with leftist ideology it fuckin kills me to see people, who might be Russian bots or propaganda Bros in all honesty or victims of them, keep saying to just do nothing and it’ll get better by magic.

Like it or not the Democrats are the only alternative to Republicans with how our system is set up. Enough people vote straight R or D every election with little to no knowledge over “that’s my team” that it is pointless to try to vote 3rd party just because of our electoral system’s flaws.

Either those peeps are arguing in bad faith, are ignorant to the reality of the situation or (unsurprisingly at this point) trolls or victims of GOP/nation state propaganda convincing them to throw their vote away.

LMAO ok so what are you gonna do light your vote on fire and help the Republicans? Nice plan.

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Nobody reads the article though…