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See that's the thing. None of us were voting to commit genocide. We were voting for president.
I was about to ask what the fuck kind of dumbass statement is saying voting for president isn’t voting for policies but the party of “nothing will fundamentally change” doesn’t really have policy so I guess that tracks for a Dem.
You should try paying attention to politics before you criticize the politics. Like, let's help you get better arguments. It bugs me when people I agree with use inaccurate information (like the democrats not having policy) when we can criticize them for far more accurate and heinous things.
It really is that simple, you are voting for a person not their platform. The platform is the advertisement of what they might do, but we all know most campaign promises are worthless. If you are just looking at a candidate's platform and not their history you're missing most of the relevant story.
If the genocide in Gaza was my only factor I was voting on, like a lot of y'all right wingers on here seem to think it should be (strange how the sibboleths in your language match theirs) I'd first ask which candidates are likely to win. Among those, which are likely to end the genocide. None? Okay which are likely to slow it, which will ignore it, and which will make it worse. Then I ranked the candidates and got to the same spot as just saying "fuck Krasnov I ain't voting for anyone he likes or who likes him"