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The problem with not voting (fedia.io)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm currently in a discussion on here with a user who refuses to vote. Pointing out that Biden has done nothing and rule under Democrats has yielded zero change. All I want is for us to come together, vote Biden in, and then carry that momentum into his next term. Historically, us not on the Right have been rather poor at coming together for a goal. Republicans on the other hand act like rabid dogs until some smuck tosses a week old rancid steak in a direction and they all surge forward.

Course then it's back to infighting. Fuck me if it hasn't gotten us all to the point we're at now though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm going to show the government by not voting!

-66% of Americans

Showed them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Instructions unclear. Do I fill in "Fuck You" as a candidate write-in?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (15 children)

The problem with guaranteeing your vote is that politicians take your vote for granted. They also take it as approval of their policies (like, you know, genocide).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The point of guaranteeing your vote in the general election is to make yourself and your interest group an invaluable base of support anyone in the party will need to succeed in a general election. Once the party has been made dependent on your group, you can pressure them via primaries, running and voting for your own candidates, making yourself and your interest group an invaluable base of support to win in a primary election.

We've actually seen this happen in real-time with MAGA, which has virtually taken over the GOP. They vote red in every general election, participate in every primary, and as a result are vastly overrepresented in the GOP. The difference of course, is they're reactionary authoritarian nationalist, and we're not.

This isn't specific to MAGA, they're only special because we've been able to watch their take over of the party, and now slowly burn it down with incompetence and unpopular policy. These changes have happened to both parties in the past, many times, and in parties all over the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

What's the alternative? Not voting so others will decide for you. Even if you don't like both candidates, you probably hate one more than the other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Then it's a problem comparison issue. Ethically, you go with the least problematic candidate.

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