#if everyone from 18-29 voted every election that would literally change the course of American history

[hyruviandoctor]

yeah, voting is good and all, but I don’t think systemic change will happen with it. The government’s mostly blue right now and look where we are, no cancellations of student debt, abortion protection laws are crumbling, still no true plan on how to deal with COVID, immigrants are still being held in cages.

So much should be done, but just voting won’t help solve anything unless we reform our government completely. We cannot wait for politicians to care about the people they “serve”, because all they do is appeal to the masses and then sell out the moment they get their votes. The system is broken, voting helps the tiniest bit, but we need true government reform and we need true representation and power for the working class.

America has the chance to be a good country, but its sins are too great, and capitalism was built to always have a group of people in that system to be in servitude for the wealthy. Not saying we need Communism, but we need a definite social and political reform that exists outside of voting. That’s just my two cents though.

I know your heart is probably in the right place, but you're actually quite wrong.

The government is not mostly blue right now. The White House is democrat, yes. The Supreme Court is stacked conservative republicans. The Senate is 50/50 (with a handful of dem senators voting more closely with their repub peers more often than fellow dems on big topics). The House of Representatives is barely majority democrat, by a margin of ~20.

I agree that voting isn't where this all stops and that more action must be taken to change our government on a fundamental level, but acting like change doesn't start with exercising your right to vote is misguided and, frankly, foolish. If people didn't get out and vote in 2020 because they felt the US' "sins are too great" for voting to matter, Donald Trump would still be president and things would be infinitely worse. Everyone voting for Biden knew it would take a lot of time to undo the damage Trump did, especially without abusing his power the way Trump did. I don't like the guy, but he's better than the alternative.

The things you list as reasons you think the dems are failing are precisely why you have to vote for more progressive candidates. The people elected now are mostly doing damage control, and without a super majority they can't do anything. Biden is too moderate, the lead dems are too moderate, but they're better than the conspiracy theorist right-wing Trumpers trying to seize power. We need more people in office that will push for the future, not keep things the same or pull us back to the past. And you do that by voting. By getting involved in your local elections, your local political reform organizations and charities. By attending rallies and protests and signing petitions and so much more.

But to say voting won't change anything is defeatist and untrue.