#if we go into another GOP presidency and they make due on their promises?

[emblemxeno]

As someone else terrified about this election I'm with you, hoping for the best but I can't believe anyone would support something this terrible...and on top of that the I'm voting third party because both are bad when one is SO much worse upsets me too didn't we go through this in 2016

I would never judge someone's choice or motivations for voting for third party, but as you say it's... stomach turning, that we're getting close to a 2016 redux.

And it's valid for people to feel that way! What the current administration is complicit in when it comes to Palestine (among other countries) is unforgiveable and should face punishment.

But they aren't the ones being punished when a third party siphons votes away from them. Rich politicians who have full time security won't face the repercussions of another Trump presidency. Women and minorities here will. And I can't, in good conscience, accept that their rights are an acceptable sacrifice for a "punishment" that won't even touch the people who deserve it.

I also don't think "protest voting" exists, because if you're actually dissatisfied with the electorate in this country (which you should be), you wouldn't still be participating in it. Like, one can claim moral righetousness because they're voting Green Party or writing in protest ballots, but it rings hollow when you're lashing at it in the next breath. And the point of protests is for the grievances to be seen en masse, and a vote being put into a counting machine isn't exactly what I'd call visibility.

For what it's worth, I believe there should be bigger attention directed towards the UN and ICJ for their utterly slug-paced attempts at meting out justice, but because they're seen as unreachable, no one does anything.