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.
It’s not the symbol of rejection you think it is. It’s full on capitulation. It’s walking away while your house is on fire, pretending you’re going to stop the fire by doing literally nothing about it.
it’s not to the people who don’t vote. you’re not going to persuade them morally they have likely done a lot of thinking about their decision. voting forces you participate in American colonialism and they cannot justify that within themselves.
It really doesn’t. At all.
no, it absolutely does. it gives us a false sense of control and instead of stopping the machine we simply keep it going through broken methods of comfort like voting.
Most people that actually know what they’re talking about fully and completely understand that voting is hardly even the start of corrective action, let alone the full solution…
voting is not going to end capitalism, period. nobody to be taken seriously thinks it will or that it’s even possible. voting can be useful at the local level. i don’t blame people for not voting in federal elections.