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The majority don't vote.
https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/70-92.shtml
Look at 2024. Less than half of the voting age population in Texas voted. It's abyssmal.
The voter apathy is understandable. Look at Virginia's redistricting. All that effort to get it passed and the Supreme Court of the state tosses it out on a dumb technicality.
It's a cut and dry example of people going out to vote and their vote meaning nothing.
It's not just apathy. Many states have been actively taking measures to make it more difficult for people to vote. Because they don't want the wrong people voting.
If the votes mean nothing then why are they trying so hard to stop us.
Discouragement is understandable, but to me apathy is not. You don't address frustration about loss of control by giving up control. That's like responding to a burglary by leaving your doors unlocked.
Yeah but this is lemmy, them not voting meant they were taking a stand against the two party system by letting fascism win.
In Texas it means they didn't give enough of a shit to show up.
Most of the time this is the real answer.
The fact that this is getting downvotes is pathetic. Shitbags dont want to admit they fuckekd up royally and put others in the cross-hairs for their sake of their own moral certitude.
"Genocide is bad so we're going to vote for the maximum amount of genocide possible"
Weird, the state of Texas makes it so easy for people to vote /s