#while I don't think that the electoral college played too much of a part this time since he shockingly won the popular vote

[akiizayoi4869]

Raise your hand if you think that the electoral college needs to go

[tartrazeen]

I'm a bit angry with the way some Americans are demanding people go vote. Just gonna break the strike for a second here, but also gonna hide this under a readmore. Venting.

I'm seeing a lot of angry, outraged posts furious that any American would even consider not voting. "Do it or you've surrendered. Show up or you've handed it to Trump. The next four years are going to be so much worse unless you vote."

And it's like

Putting aside any rebuttals to deconstruct that lesser of two evils mindset...

... that is a lot of shit coming from a country that had the majority vote for Democrats across MULTIPLE elections, despite the endless voter suppression laws, when America has yet to do away with the thing preventing that majority vote from mattering.

The sheer rage at people not wanting to waste their time doing the same thing over and over, never being able to trust the results, could've been spent focusing on those representatives that were so painstakingly elected to demand the electoral colleges be abolished, or a federal action to enshrine voting rights, or something. Instead, it's spent being inexplicably confounded that the sunk cost fallacy is not a persuasive argument.

I'm not saying 'don't vote'. Definitely vote! But holy shit, does everyone posting this stuff think that's all you need to do? That's the easy part! Voting is practically insignificant next to the lobbying, campaigns, and targeted pressure you need to put on officials to enact anything. You've had the Democrats in charge for a few years - where's the action? Oh, some rule got in the away? Okay, what's the plan to change the rule? Oh, you can't change it? Then why the fuck does it matter who you vote for? Forget whether or not you should vote - if you do vote, how does get anything done if everyone's hands are just immediately tied anyway? Why are you wasting so much time rolling a boulder up this hill when you could eliminate the hill?

But the real kicker? If voting is so important, why isn't fixing it the number one thing on Biden's platform? Could it be that endless calls for voter turnout is not the most efficient strategy, and that even he realizes there are easier ways to get around it? Could it be that everyone screaming for votes is playing checkers while the House and Senate are playing Money-in-Swing-State Chess?

Whatever. Rant over. I hope Trump doesn't win but I'm not blaming a single regular person if it's another "tee hee the electoral colleges" situation. There's no organization to these people blindly insisting voting will 'for sure pay off this time'. If there was, there'd be a path to voting presented, not just a tantrum.

Edit: For real - people are saying they can't vote, and you're just berating them? Okay, why you don't you do something that helps them vote? Oh, that's too hard? You just wanna have fun being angry that "they aren't working hard enough" and therefore "deserve everything they let happen"? Okay. Nice pre-deflection to avoid putting some actual effort in.