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[flaviomatani]

There still seems to be a sort of Rapturist view of politics for some people in which we don't get the options we want so we walk out and don't vote for a Macron or a Hillary because they're evil too, even if the alternative is so so much more evil... I've come across a few examples of this recently and don't quite understand it...

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[miss_s_b]

I think that especially in the most outspoken proponents of this strategy, this may be mere posturing and those people may well sneakily vote in a rational manner in the end.

I am dead set certain that this is correct.
And yeah, research into electoral behaviour in the UK says that a clear majority of people vote against, not for.

[flaviomatani]

We used to have a lot of that in Venezuela in the days before Chávez. There were two main parties, one II International, slightly left of centre Social Democratic party, the other one a conservative slightly right wing 'Social-Christian' party. People kept voting for the other party every five years as they couldn't possibly be as bad as this lot currently in office....