#i'd likely still do it! but THREATENING not to IS a democracy tool | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

liesmyth · 4 months ago

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to be clear: threatening to withhold your vote on condition of a candidate adopting a certain policy is a fundamental tenet of democracy. it's effectively one of the very few tools available to regular citizens to get an elected official to listen. you don't have to actually go through with it, but you sure as hell have to MAKE NOISE about how you definitely totally will so that you actually get taken seriously. begrudgingly agreeing to vote for the least shit option is something you do the week of the election, if it comes to that. you don't SETTLE until it's too late. you don't shut up criticism months in advance by acting like every (extremely valid) objection is a psyop.

I'm not very keen on patronising tumblr users who express moral qualms about genocide by acting like they don't know what's good for them, especially on a website made up disproportionately of disenfranchised voters who all have a lot to lose in case of a far-right administration. if you're that invested, you're better off using that time and energy volunteering for someone's campaign, given the projected sizeable percentage of non-voters outside of tumblr dot com. peace and love on planet earth.

speaking my truth. the us elections discourse on this website makes it painfully clear that some people people don't understand how democracy works

#blessedly this has nothing to do with me #but wanted to say my piece given that I have to see untagged discourse every day on this website :)#anyway. if it was ME. you can bet your ass I'd be very very VERY loudly threatening not to vote #i'd likely still do it! but THREATENING not to IS a democracy tool #anyway. unfortunately. no amount of tumblr discourse is going to make up for the huge number of persuadable voters #the democrats are just giving up on by sticking with biden to spare his feelings or whatever #they're hemorraging votes for reasons OTHER than what tumblr is discoursing about #this is all i'll say & i'm not interested in disk horse but like. the tone of some posts is unbearable. its BEEN unbearable for months #eye think it would be constructive to acknowledge the genocide my candidate is carrying out #instead of only talking about how the hypothetical genocide the other guy would do will be worse #you know? i'll eat the shit if i have to. don't tell me that it doesn't stink #us politics #peace & love. signing out

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