you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] -4 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Worry less about election day and more about those 364 days.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

    No, I think I will worry about election day, thank you very much. Voting is one of the most important ways to steer politicians toward working for your benefit. So please tell me, in your world view, what should I do with my voice and opinion on election day?

    Bonus question: if you guarantee your vote to a party, regardless of what they do (such as commit a genocide, such as expand ICE, such as building the border wall, such as keeping Guantanamo bay open, such as never taxing the rich more, and so on), what incentive do they have to listen to you? And follow up, if your answer is that democrats do still work for the electorate, why are they moving further and further right, away from the interests and opinions of most Americans? (This is measurable, see for examples the 2014 paper Testing theories of American politics which found that policy positions of politicians align perfectly with those of economic elites, and with those of average voters really only ever by accident)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Start with learning the difference between the way things ought to be (they really should- it would be so easy) and the way things actually are. Knowing is half the battle!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 months ago (8 children)

    Oh great thanks for the advice! Any chance you have an answer to literally any of the questions I asked?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)
  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    You're losing and you know it

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You view conversations as something to be won. How sad.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [โ€“] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    This isn't a conversation dumbass

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Why are you such a negative Nancy all the time?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments