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Ooh, anti-democracy propaganda started early this cycle. I guess cons aren't so sure about this one so they had to start this voting supression psyop this time of the year.
Americans have so thoroughly bought into the notion that democracy means an entrenched two-party system, that they instinctively view any suggestion to the contrary as "anti-democracy".
Virtually every other functioning democracy in the world manages to maintain legislative houses with anything from 6-20 parties represented in Government, but somehow you've created a self-fulfilling prophecy where it's impossible for you to have because it's impossible for you to have.
It's cool in theory. In practice, US is a two-party system, and a regular person can't do shit about it. So you either vote for least bad party and organise and campaign to improve something, or you vote for most bad party and spend the whole time trying to survive while the most bad party kills most vulnerable people.
It's a shit system, US is deeply fucked. However, you don't go about fixing it by not understanding how it works
Regular people can do everything about it. It just needs for people to stop telling them they can’t.
I'll vote blue out of harm reduction, not out of hope.
IF there's another real election, and IF the Neoliberals win, they'll do NOTHING to reign in the capitalists that fund the fascists because they're bribed to protect the "free market," just as the Fascists are.
All them winning in 2028 might do is buy a little time before the Fascists are on the march the following cycle. That's why it's ignorant when people claim the only reason we're collapsing is Trump. Reagan set the table for fascism and every president since has furthered that outcome. Whether this happened in 2020,2024, 2028, this was happening.
So vote for the Neoliberals all you want. I do it out of the starfish parable, to one delayed fascist action, it matters, but we're still in a capitalist fascist hell, and until we have something to vote or riot for that will bring the capital markets to cinder, nothing can improve. You should feel like throwing up after voting here.
When you vote neoliberal democratic party, nothing fundamentally changes, and shit system isn't fixed. When you don't, armed vans are roaming around the cities putting non-white people in concentration camps somewhere abroad.
You can boast your moral superiority all you want, but those are the choices, and every person with a sliver of morality should spend all their waking second to prevent one of those choices to happen again, more.
The "everyone is the same, voting is pointless, if you vote you are a sheep that doesn't see the moral truth" posts are doing the opposite of that, and when the opposite is encluraged, you get the worse choice, the one that hates you and actively working on killing you.
There's also not-insignificant evidence coming to light suggesting out voting is already compromised. Several counties have ridiculously anomalous voting patterns based on their investigation. Congress is already borked, and the Senate never seems to make a good decision, and the supreme Court is bought and paid for. I'm going to vote for the lesser of two evils because doing anything else is pointless, and also maybe is that vote. I highly doubt the people are going to be allowed to continue their voting fraud investigation, or make anything happen to those responsible even if the evidence becomes insurmountable.
I'm personally afraid that there's no coming back. Trump (take 2) is the result of a broken system, not the cause. But I'll continue doing my part in hopes that I'm wrong. I can't afford to expatriate.
You heard it here first folks: this guy says don't vote its not worth it it doesnt matter anyway they dont count it they'll cheat anyway
I feel like I remember saying the exact opposite actually... Hold on, let me check.
Yep turns out I did. Yes, I absolutely have concerns that it won't make a difference, but I'm not delusional enough to think doing absolutely nothing is a viable option. I think there's a chance we can recover, but I'm also afraid we might not.
I want the two party system to die, but right now our only option is to try and vote in true progressives until they remove the parts of the system that keep the status quo. Yes, I said vote them in, because I think it's still the best current option. It's slow, and it sucks, and there will still be a ton more damage done before anything (hopefully) changes for the better, but I'm not giving up. Just expressing my fears and thoughts. Iowa's recent election shows that voting still works, at the very least, in the smaller elections.
To reiterate: I, and everyone capable of doing so, should still vote. Who knows, maybe we can get enough independent Congress seats filled to eventually have an actual say in what happens.
But you can understand my frustrations right? These people are breaking the law, refusing to follow scotus rulings, committing war crimes, and a great deal of people are cheering for it, and not a single consequence is being dished out to those who deserve it. The rule of law has never to my knowledge been so flagrantly ignored in American history.
I'll continue to participate in democracy, but I won't truly believe it's working until crimes and behavior is answered for, and those currently in power are properly held to account.