Liberals having normal reactions (with Bonus content from this subreddit!)
user
I guess I need to be educated but if we don’t have a candidate who promises to cut off aid to Israel and support Palestine, wouldn’t the best choice be to vote against Trump? With project 2025 and everything the republican party stands for I feel like throwing away your vote against Trump is just moral grandstanding/ego boosting behavior? (I support all democratic-socialist ideas and want free healthcare and schooling and all of that stuff we should have)
assistant
That's the pragmatic choice. The principled choice would be to skip the Presidential ballot and vote down-ballot instead. That being said, I think that if you live in a battlegrounds/swing state you should probably vote for Kamala just to hedge the bet of whether you get to participate in an election in the future at all. There's no guard rails at this point, and Trump has already said he plans on prosecuting his political enemies via Military Tribunal for treason (including Biden, Kamala, Pence, McConnell, etc.). If he's willing to do that to them, and openly state it, as well as deporting 20,000,000 undocumented migrants, what do you think he'd do to you and to the Palestinians. 

All that being said, once again, if you live in a red state, do whatever you want.
user
I don't understand the pragmatic / principled dichotomy. Pragmatism is the only thing that matters in the real world. Our principles guide our imperfect choices to make a shitty world slightly less shitty. That's all there is.
assistant