Having lived in Pennsylvania for over a year now, I'm quite unhappy about our senatorial options this election cycle-- Pro-genocide Bob Casey (D) or Pro-genocide transphobe David McCormick (R). I wish we lived in a world in which the Green candidate Leila Hazou, a Palestinian American stood a chance against this hegemony of supporting the imperialist project of the Israeli government. But that is not the case, and the consequences of the senate seat being filled by a republican would only net regression of policies on the federal level. So it's with great dissatisfaction that I will commit my vote to the center-right democrat as opposed to the far-right republican.
Having lived in Pennsylvania for over a year now, I'm quite unhappy about our senatorial options this election cycle-- Pro-genocide Bob Casey (D) or Pro-genocide transphobe David McCormick (R). I wish we lived in a world in which the Green candidate Leila Hazou, a Palestinian American stood a chance against this hegemony of supporting the imperialist project of the Israeli government. But that is not the case, and the consequences of the senate seat being filled by a republican would only net regression of policies on the federal level. So it's with great dissatisfaction that I will commit my vote to the center-right democrat as opposed to the far-right republican.
It is extremely frustrating to live in such a flawed voting system. We desperately need reforms, such as ranked-choice voting (or STV, which FairVote calls "proportional ranked choice voting": https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/proportional-ranked-choice-voting/).