There’s the danger of massively wasting yours and others’ time by getting them invested in Quixotic strategies. I can and (partially) already did expound on this at length.

There’s the blowback from tying socialists to liberal politicians, furthering the ubiquitous misunderstanding of what socialism is and why it’s necessary and making socialism less palatable by association.

There’s the blowback from the inherent lack of control via the typical :vote:ing strategies, the unintended yet virtually guaranteed negative consequences of the compromises individuals going this route are willing to make. Organizing for and voting for Obama led fairly clearly to the current 6-3 Supreme Court, yet we all know the strategy was as simplistic as “Dems will appoint less bad justices so we should critically support them with :vote:ing”. A :vote: is a very weak thing individually that gives you incredibly little power, not only in terms of your part in aggregate choice of representative, but in terms of what they can and will actually do to further the goals that you have in mind.

There’s the constant liberal sheepdogging that warps your priorities, making you consider incredibly terrible ghouls as needing critical support and the false pretense that your presidential vote matters. See: the many “I’ve gotta vote for Biden” threads in October. So many confused leftists who have fully bought into the “this is an important personal choice” paradigm, regardless of whether they thought it was a good idea to :vote: for Biden or not. Those are brain worms and you get them by default.

I’m not against electoralism, I’m against vague calls for electoralism, particularly regarding the presidential election, because they’re liberal and counterproductive by default. The elephant in the room is how you engage with it. In this thread, the idea of :vote:ing to influence the Supreme Court was absurd.