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Everyone in this thread is crying for violence or strike or terrorism.
Just fucking vote.
Do not listen to the hexbears, the .ml bots, the morons.
If Not Voting was an option it would dominate every single election cycle. Every single time.
The problem with our system is nobody is engaging with it to have it work at 100% power.
#If voting didn't work they would not try so goddamn hard to discourage and discount your vote!
And that doesn't mean just you, get others to the poll. Convince Grandma republicans aren't it this cycle.
How do you expect a system to function properly if nobody is maintaining it? Look at New York. Look at how quickly they can fuck things up. It's actually a lot easier to fix it. Fucking vote.
Right? Same problem in Canada, we bitch and moan and will spend so much energy on so many things but our turnout is dogshit. The last Montréal municipal election had 36%, the last couple Ontario provincial elections had less than half, and the last federal election was only 69.5%. Last time the federal election saw more than 70% was in 1988.
The honest fact of it all is that votes are currently not weighted differently. No matter how fucked things get, if populations said “NO” to these openly corrupt assholes then that would be the end of them. Instead, it feels like nothing will stop idiots from voting for pure evil and nothing will get 30+% of the population to actually pay any attention at all.
No one is telling anybody not to vote. I think most of us here, if not all, are going to vote. And most will probably be voting blue, despite objections of a lot of us having establishment dem candidates.
We just don’t have a lot of confidence in how this is going to turn out. It doesn’t look good at all.
Yes they are all the time. I see the sentiment everywhere on lemmy. People are convinced voting is a sham and doesn't work because people have not done their duty to defend voting.
Yeah, no. You are just conflating doing more then one thing at a time with only doing one thing and being smug about it.
Too right. Lets worry about the rest after we try to save the country from itself.