For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.

  • DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Divisive propaganda got me to vote for Jill Stein in 2016. I would still assert that Clinton was an awful candidate, but I should have voted for her.

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      7 months ago

      I fell for this, too. I felt like I needed to “punish” the democrats for corruption that blocked Bernie from what should have been rightfully his. It felt like the democrats were doing election fraud. I thought Trump wouldn’t possibly win in my state anyway. Oh how naive I was.

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        7 months ago

        That, to demonstrate to the Democratic party that I don’t want to support them if they actively fight against my policy goals, and to help develop a viable third party.

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          7 months ago

          Wish voting third party could accomplish that. I want the same things. Thank you for sharing.

          Shocked that a vast majority of this country doesn’t agree to exclusively vote for candidates whose primary policy position is electoral reform.