Political Memes

I don’t think anybody is in a moral position to say ‘voting for the lesser of two evils is bad/pointless’ unless they’re engaged in literally any activism at all to the alternative

Why is it a moral position? It's an analysis. It's a material position. Civil Rights was not won by voting. Women's Suffrage was not won by voting. The analysis is pretty clear that progress isn't made by voting. That's not a moral position.

The people taking up a moral position are the one's saying "It's immoral for you to have that analysis. You must vote to be moral and deserving of interaction and acceptance".

Otherwise their moral idealism is self-righteous harmful ‘slacktivism’, nothing more.

Moral judgment of an amoral analysis. Voting doesn't work is an amoral analysis. Telling people that voting does work is lying to them and directs their psychology towards a feeling of false agency that robs them of the opportunity to do something meaningful. If they want to change the world, and you tell them voting will change the world, you're actively harming all of us. If instead you told them the truth that voting has never worked and that all progress we can point to has been made through other means, not only are you being honest, you're creating the conditions for change to happen.

Most people won’t do anything more than vote (or abstain). Most people already barely read policy at all. For such people, recommending they sit down on the belt and be carried righteously into fascism from a position of moral superiority is still moving forward on the belt.

This assumes that we're moving TOWARD fascism. The reality is that the country was founded as a fascist country by patriarchal pedophilic Christian white supremacists. It's always been a fascist country, which is why the Nazis studied the American systems of control to model their systems of control on. The Nazis were mimicking the US. And the US elite, those for whom the founders designed the constitution, they funded and collaborated with the Nazis because they were all fascists. We've never not been fascist. The conveyor belts is not moving us towards fascism. It's taking away your comforting illusion that you're safe in the interior of a fascist country because you've assimilated to it. Guess what. We're not safe in here. And voting for Ds will not bring that safety back.