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American leftists do you vote? Why or why not? And if yes, for who and why? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the gloomy lesson I learned from watching liberals is that bourgeois elections in some way defile the voter, and in the course of time, deform her conscience

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by “deform her conscience”?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I mean the voter acquiesces to morally align herself with a system that produces atrocities. The content of the ballot does not matter.

e: ... that is to say that voting legitimizes the bourgeois state and authorizes its predation, hence the voter is culpable, and thus tainted