Tactical voting is a blight on democracy.
If we accept a few polls as inevitable and let them scare us into voting against our conscience democracy functions... well, a bit like it has been. Which is to say, it doesn't.
"Party X can't win here" is *always* a lie intended to preserve the status quo. Change comes only by ignoring the polls and campaigning and voting for the world we expect to see.
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
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2025-10-17 17:15:03 UTC
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