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But what if the thing I want never happens?
Then you must vote every day!
It might not and you can choose to be defeatist about that but I'd rather keep trying, both by voting and by organizing within my community
If I had hope it would have been destroyed already.
Defeatism is the only thing that keeps me voting. (And my mom.)
hey hey hey...
you're only allowed to engage in ONE side of this argument..
And we wonder why people hate politics…
I just don't know what to do with the ABWD/ Blue MAGA/ Thirdway/ "Vote harder-er" crowd. Like, at no point are you allowed to recognize the fact that the system of elections and reforms is not-functioning: that voting has no practical impact on outcomes in US Democracy.
And there answer is always just some lazy version of pascals wager, but it totally fails to account for the other half of the equation, which is that there absolutely are negative consequences to giving your consent for nothing in return.