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putri900 · 9 months ago

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My problem is that it also isnt a signal for much of anything. One person will win at the end of the day whether there is participation or not, all you do by not voting is not being part of either winners voting block-- but theyll still be there by the end of the election.

So unless you throw a revolution against the US government, voting is the best way to ensure the capability for things to be better to begin with, cause even if the reps dont overthrow the Democracy, they sure as hell will make it near impossible to get any progressive victories otherwise. All it will be is a fight to avoid losing/ or to regain thing such as womens reproductive rights, gay and interracial marriage, and even minorities rights to vote... and exist.

the problem with not voting in order to send the message that you hate all the candidates and the entire system and therefore refuse to participate is that it's completely indistinguishable, as a signal, from not bothering to vote because you think the system is great and all the candidates are great and you'd be fine with any of them. so you might want to rethink the strategy there

#again is it so forgettable that Republicans are just evil?#about black voting power: they tried to assert voter ID laws which would vastly disempower black voters to even be able to vote #and this was acknowledged by the court which saw to that bill-- THIS WAS YEARS AGO #and the bills they've been proposing as of late have been increasingly cartoonishly absurd but hey lets not forget #because trump was in office the supreme court leans right and therefore some of that crazy even unconstitutional shit will stick #they just dont fucking care #they will work both in and outside of the system to ensure the UTMOST suffering #and while theyre already doing this; why then give them more systematic power #honestly i am pretty doomer about this even despite what i say. the utter apathy (also brought about by the dems) will ensure trump wins #but i just want to say about the apathy:#yeah biden sucks. but in giving up on the only barrier between a Republican winning you are also being apathetic to the #sheer evil shit they want done #their project of criminalizing trans people is also a genocidal project.#like damn idk the future is so bleak #politics #people are mentioning local elections and by god obviously those matter as well #like yeah theyre trying to make a little hell on earth in every red state currently

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