I am a Palestinian American in Pennsylvania, a contested state. I plan to write in “uncommitted” in the Democratic primary on 23 April and in November, I will vote for a third-party candidate.

For many, myself included, a vote for Biden is simply impermissible – the extent of the moral calamity is so great as to render a vote for Biden a vote for complicity.

As the president of the Center City mosque in Philadelphia, Mohammed Shariff, said to me: “My vote is the purest form of expression and speech.” President Biden ignores our voices at his own peril, and ours.

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    they said they would vote for a so called third party. that’s voting against fascists.

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        this is misinformation. the votes must be counted for whoever the voter chooses.

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              You’re not wrong, but there’s no incentive for the people operating in the current system to change that system.

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            Democrats, on the other hand are a much broader tent. They encompass everybody else that isn’t Is die hard republican.

            no, they don’t. if that were true then no one would vote for any party except democrats and republicans. that’s not the case, so you’re incorrect.

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            What pool of voters do you think are gonna be drawn mostly to a green party ticket? It’s not gonna be republican voters

            the pool who don’t like war and environmental destruction