• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    So if not voting for her is the best choice who do you suggest that we vote for? Because not voting is the worst choice.

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      Thank you for responding politely, it is very appreciated.

      Ideally, you would vote for someone that you actually like and want to have represent you. Not someone perfect of course, but someone who doesn’t do outright repulsive and two-faced evil things like this lady was caught doing. But if no such person exists, then I think that not voting at all really is the best option, for the reasoning stated above. I don’t want to misrepresent my standards to the political entities, because then I’m giving them an excuse not to meet my (what should be low) standards.

      I don’t really know about what’s going on in Michigan, so I looked into it to tell you what I’d do.

      It turns out that this horrible Gretchen person is term limited anyways. Probably why she’s being so careless. There are two Democrats in the running it looks like. One being a huge asshole sheriff who wants to attract the AI industry by building data centers. and the other being Jocelyn Benson who wants to protect reproductive rights and has endorsements from local labor groups…buuuut she’s married to a VP of a real estate company that wants to build a data center in Michigan… 🤔 although he did say he’d recuse himself from the projects if she was elected.

      So, for example, I would never vote for the AI Sheriff, even if he was the only candidate. Same for Gretchen, if it were possible for her to run. Because I want to do my part to lift the bar higher than that. As for the other candidate I’d have to look a little deeper to say for sure, but the scandals I’m seeing tend to be in a more plausible deniability realm, and I don’t see anything disagreeable in her policies themselves. So tentatively would vote for her.