Fortunately voting isn't mutually exclusive to any other flavor of activism. So, unironically: yes, please do vote, as often and informed as you're able to.

Light up some billionaire's warehouse on the way home if you want, but voting is easier and safer than pretty much any offer method of driving some rapid reform, so start with voting, and take whatever other action you feel still needs to take place.

Lots of hate on voting lately... Why? Use every tool we've got.

For me it was how the democratic establishment used all their energy on undermining the Bernie campaigns of 2016 and 2020. They litterally would rather have fascist president than seeing change.

Remember folks, it’s always easier to break something than to build it. That’s why morons like Trump are so successful.

It's even more fun when they help the fascists while attacking anyone left of Gavin Newsom.

The last time the Democrats controlled the presidency, senate and house was during Obama, and it was only for like 100 days. Thats how obamacare passed. And despite being very flawed, it is one of the biggest improvements in the quality of life of millions of people.

Most of the time, the Democrats cant pass shit, because young, leftist voters, dont vote.

But yeah, continue not voting, punish the not perfect Democrats, give absolute power to maga. Surely that will bring the proletariat revolution into existence.

If tens of millions of people suffer and die in the meantime, what can you do, thats the price of the revolution. Thankfully, your middle class white status shields you from the consequences of your virtue signaling.

Just the destruction of USAID will cause hundreds of of thousands of deaths, mostly in Africa. Millions of people have been imprisoned and deported. And in before "Obama was deporter in chief", 95% of Obama's deportations happened either at the border or after someone was arrested(for a different crime).

If you have a latin friend, ask them if they were afraid existing when Obama was president, in comparison to now, where people are afraid to pick up their kids from school.

To quote Malcom X: "It's the ballot, or the bullet."

We gonna have to get mean of we want it to change. Looking at the comments, we are already there.

Is everyone lost in the sauce in these comments? The meme is about holding fascists accountable for things like authoritarian actions, not passing milquetoast policies to capitulate to their voting base when they don't follow through on 90% of what their campaign promises were.

Talking Epstein action, state surveillance overreach, actual war crimes and unconstitutional breaches that are handwaved away or not addressed (usually strengthened or re-instituted during "progressive" times). This has been going on since the civil war, "Let's move on and focus on the future, not hold people to standards or accountability (or the actual fucking law)". I predict maybe 2-3 high profile cases during the next presidential term that will try to go after someone but will just be a drop in the bucket compared to what people are getting away with.

Most people who read and write the comments here are frustrated because there is no known mechanism to have large scale change in the USA. Only minor victories that are easily lost to time.

It's quick and easy to blame a specific party or whatever boogeyman du jour you want. It's much harder to do the work and takes a lot longer to actually actively participate in supporting stronger leaders and building a better future.

I can't and won't comment on OP's specific motivations, but the thing I consistently see with messages like this -- no viable solutions and no practical alternatives. Just fluff and fantasy, misinformation, and over simplification, amongst other problematic issues.

Voting is basically the lowest hurdle to participate and influence political outcomes (in the USA) and yet voter turnout is shockingly low. Of course that's going to be a big message from any party that wants to be part of the process. What this graphic specifically is doing is making it seems like that's the ONLY messaging coming from the Democratic party. It's the same ole song and dance as the fascists, misinformation.

Then, seeing how abyssal voter turn out is in the country, participation rates in all the other political activities is only a tiny little fraction of that. You want change? You want power? You'll have to participate and you'll have to persuade others, many others, to participate. You need to organize, and you need to have a plan.

Let's say you believe the shtick that Dems "do nothing to fight back", what things did you do to counter that? I'm sure here in the anonymity of the Lemmy, we all donated lots of money to other parties and candidates, knocked on doors and made calls on their behalf, helped support new and upcoming leaders (or stepped up ourselves) and convinced them to run for local offices so that they were in a great position to move up the chain to ever more important and influential positions, and we called our leaders from locals all the way up to federal level and let them know what issues we find important. But outside of the minuscule population on Lemmy, the US population as a whole did not. And memes laser focused on further disenfranchising people from the process definitely won't change a thing there. In fact, that's part of why we're here to begin with.

Oh, but InvalidName2, YoU DiDn't oFfEr aNy pRaCtIcAl sOlUtIoNs eItHeR, yOu'rE JuSt aS BaD.

I did, but if you didn't pay attention, you're not a serious person. I'd rather spend my effort donating lots of money the best candidates I can find, knocking on doors and making calls on their behalf, helping support campaigns of new and upcoming leaders, and talking to my elected officials from locals all the way up to federal level and let them know what issues I find important, and numerous other activities that align with my political goals. AND I'm also helping other people get involved where they can, supporting local organizations to amplify that support, and so on.

It's almost like you have to win the election...

The assumption that the Democrats aren't fascist is why the cycle remains unbroken

They're all corrupt. Just ask the dead Palestinians

Unfortunately what it really resolves to (and always has) is us, the people,

They tampered with the ballot box. If they won't listen to the soap box, The only box left is the ammo box.

Democrats say vote, you don't, they don't get power, they can't do shit, you blame them for asking you to vote, you don't do it again, it's everyone else's fault but yours.
"But I voted once in 2012, and it clearly didn't help, therefore the whole concept of democracy should be abandoned"

The only way forward is to liquidate the billionaires as a class.

Vote with one hand, throw a brick with the other.

Even if your best option is to vote for postponing the day leftists start getting hauled off to camps, you should still vote. Activism is harder when you're in a mega prison.