Its the primaries over here and its peoples chance to choose who will run on the democratic ticket in the general election. You may not like the two party system or the lack of rank choice voting but this is peoples chance to determine who might take governement positions. I hope no one who throws out the democrats don’t do enough are voting in the primaries because otherwise they are the reason what we get with democrats is what it is. Primaries because its just one party pretty much doubles the value of ones vote and further since they get less turnout it at least doubles it again. So the vote effect is in excess of 3x at a minimum. Citizenship in the us has two repsonsibilities. Voting and jury duty. Both are important to democracy.
Yeah but if you refuse to take the one step you have that can influence the way the country is run then don’t complain. I don’t care how much someone thinks or does not think the system is rigged. If your not participating then figure out how your going to make the change you want. I mean whats the point of complaininng about elections if you think they are rigged. If you feel the electoral system is pointless then you should be working outside the electoral system in whatever way you think appropriate. Whats the point of complaining about something you have decided to have nothing to do with?
it can’t lol. certainly not at the federal level. i would argue a focus on state and local if anything. the people who refuse to vote aren’t refusing to do something that can affect change, they just don’t want to participate in the ruse.
and thats a fine opinion (mine differs). I don’t know why someone would go vote for local and state positions and just refuse in the federal but that is fine (somewhat. it is stil the only step that migh influence the way its run. again if your not doing it then why are you even discussing the irrelvant thing. rather than complaining you should just be like. it sucks but im not going to revolt and have no control of vote outcome). I don’t vote for uncontested positions myself. Local is real improtant and people should not skip the judicial part even though it takes a load of research. I mean im not big on leaving the us because I think we have to fight this but if I felt our democracy did not work at all then 100% I would leave.