And I’m being serious. I feel like there might be an argument there, I just don’t understand it. Can someone please “steelman” that argument for me?

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    6 days ago

    For the love of all that is holy, do not assume that they will figure out everything you just typed above from the fact that you didn’t vote for them.

    I don’t actually agree with your choice, but I do agree with this:

    The Dems can be better, but they choose not to.

    So please, if you have convinced yourself that withholding one vote out of tens of millions will somehow send them the message you are trying to send, please also convince yourself that it would be even more effective to drop them a line and let them know how you feel in explicit detail.

    https://democrats.org/contact-us/

    Same message for everyone else who chose a protest vote on Tuesday. It’s all great to feel like you did the right thing, but maybe now question whether your message will actually be received, and be sure that it does. Otherwise you put Trump in for literally nothing.