Post by @ccunning@lemmy.world

2026-10-07 15:43 UTC

Tom Morello Clarifies He Votes, But Not For “Corporate Democrats” Some people out there seem to be confused, but I always vote in every local and every national election for every office and every ballot initiative since I was 18 years old. Some of my greatest civil rights heroes have fought and died so that we can all vote and I honor their memory in the ballot box every single time. To some of us, especially those of us like myself who have been scheduling secretaries for US senators, it often seems like a morally reprehensible choice between compromised corporate Democrats and fascist-minded Republicans. Where I live in California, I have the luxury of voting my conscience for president for third-party candidates that better align with my ideas of justice and equality. But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off, but don’t just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you’d like to really see without compromise and without apologies before, during, and after election day. And let’s stop the fascists every which way we can. Power the people.

Replies (11)

@iuseasahibtw@ani.social 2026-10-08 03:06

Ah yes, the performative hipster vooter, he’s gonna voot, tell you how he voots, and do nothing else but post about it on social media.

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@ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-07 20:31

Those 2 or 3 DNC glazing posters on Lemmy: “sO yOuRe a FaScIsT tHeN.”

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@GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2026-10-07 16:17

Seems reasonable to me. God knows no one in Pennsylvania has been any better off for voting John Fetterman. Play the game as best you can with the cards you have, and fold when that’s the right choice, and then work to make the game function better through organizing and other means.

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@Octavio@piefed.social 2026-10-08 01:39

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@daychilde@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 23:34

Anytime a left-wing person talks about being disappointed with their lesser-of-two-evil options, people get all up in arms about the idea that we owe the Democratic Party our fealty. Nobody owes anyone anything, but when given the choice between a fascist who wouldn’t mind seeing me dead vs. an establishment Democrat who doesn’t mind if I manage to survive just as long as the oligarchs get their tax breaks, I’ll go with the one who doesn’t want to actively take away my human rights every time, if for no other reason that it’s the better choice at that point. So what the fuck are you doing BEFORE the general election? Or are you blowing the entire process off and then feeling smug about not voting for the lesser-of-two-evil THEREBY HELPING THE GREATER EVIL WIN.

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@adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 05:36

Tom Morello lives in California. You don’t. Vote strategically, dumbasses.

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@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-08 05:45

I know it’s unpopular this month, but fuck Macklemore for not doing and saying as this man does. In good weather, vote for the good people. In the heart of the storm, when the volcano threatens to end humanity, and the plague is ravaging the people, vote for the goddamn candidate that didn’t RAPE CHILDREN and the candidate with the best chance of winning against the guy who wants to (and fully has successfully) protected his other child rapist friends. It’s not rocket science. Oh, and the guy who owns the most successful rocket scientists was hired by the rapist, and that guy did a fucking Nazi salute at his inauguration. But let’s all celebrate Macklemore for… ::Checks notes:: opposing genocide? Really? The bar is that low? Fucking hell…

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@reddit_sux@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 06:07

Boo hoo you got morals. How dare you vote by your morals if it inconvenience me? If Kamala Harris would have gotten a primary she would have come last? If Dems had a proper primary instead of panding to a senior buffon there would have been an actual promising candidate. Dems lost not because of people not voting; they lost because they didn’t represent anyone, other than the donor class.

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@UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 18:06

This is a pretty good response. I wish there was more focus on that ‘inch of space’ and who gets harmed, and less on the disappointing sock puppet figureheads.

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@capital5@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-08 07:42

I’ll probably get downvoted to hell for saying this, but whatever, it needs to be said. It’s just unbearable listening to how all of you defend voting for people you hate and doing nothing about it. Here’s the truth: if you have one party that’s neo-fascist, and another party that does nothing, then in reality, your country is a one-party neo-fascist state. What you need to do about it is fixed the root cause. Throw your constitution in the trash and write a new one that guarantees proportional representation. Sure, PR isn’t perfect, but it’s better than a single party state. No, voting in primaries isn’t going to fix the problem. Maybe you get a small handful of 10 politicians around the country that make you feel good about yourselves, but there are still thousands more standing in their way preventing any real progress. What have Bernie Sanders or AOC really achieved? Nothing, because there’s 500 other people in Congress. What has Mamdani done for more than the tiny fraction of Americans living in NYC? Nothing, because a mayor in NYC is can’t do shit for the 90% of people who live in other parts of the country. Do whatever you want, vote however you want, but real change won’t come until you throw out that stinking piece of trash constitution you have and write one that makes the USA a real democracy. Shout it out as loud as you can, because until then, nothing meaningful is ever going to change. P.S. It’s not that people aren’t aware of the shitty system, it’s the fact that absolutely nobody is talking about the real problem, and there’s no movement whatsoever to fix it. Even Canadians are pushing desperately for PR and getting nowhere, but the USA is even more silent about it, and it’s fucking infuriating.

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@Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-09 02:18

When your opponent is fascism: YOU VOTE AGAINST FASCISM. I thought he was smarter than this, but it seems purity tests don’t leave room for raging against machines.

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