#rather than the desiccated hand of wretched bigotry clinging to power currently in the house of reps and SCOTUS

[sagechan]

this is something i've been thinking of for a couple days now, and i'm glad someone said it so well. "vote with your dollar" and "vote in an election" are not the same thing just because they both use the word "vote." both are forms of political action, but through opposite means. one requires withholding engagement, the other requires being engaged. get engaged, and vote. not voting doesn't accomplish anything except...not voting. when they count the votes for an election, they don't tally which ones were given gleefully, resentfully, angrily, or even tactically. they just tally the votes. and, see, the way it works is, whoever has the most wins. this isn't a company beholden to shares and stockholders that we can pressure into submission by withholding monetary incentive. this is an active infrastructure we affect in real time by using our one political too available to every single registered citizen in this country. fucking vote.

people think they shouldn't vote as a protest or whatever because they've been raised on boycotts. which do sometimes work.

boycotts deprive the target of money.

not voting does not deprive the government of money.

it does, however, deprive you of power.

it's not like a boycott.