• Folstar@lemmus.org
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    14 hours ago

    You must have missed this part where you are making your voice heard by picking the least bad option, so here it is again:

    On election day you pick the lesser evil, which hopefully all that fighting you did made much less evil.

    Or maybe you’re confused about how things ought to be versus how they actually are, that too was covered:

    We have an archaic election system, and until that changes (work to change it), that’s the best path forward.

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      10 hours ago

      On election day you pick the lesser evil

      I cannot stomach voting for someone who sent billions to commit genocide with. That is my voice, and my opinion. What should I do with that on election day, you think?

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          26 minutes ago

          No, I think I will worry about election day, thank you very much. Voting is one of the most important ways to steer politicians toward working for your benefit. So please tell me, in your world view, what should I do with my voice and opinion on election day?

          Bonus question: if you guarantee your vote to a party, regardless of what they do (such as commit a genocide, such as expand ICE, such as building the border wall, such as keeping Guantanamo bay open, such as never taxing the rich more, and so on), what incentive do they have to listen to you? And follow up, your answer is that democrats still work for the electorate, why are they moving further and further right, away from the interests and opinions of most Americans? (This is measurable, see for examples the 2014 paper Testing theories of American politics which found that policy positions of politicians align perfectly with those of economic elites, and only with that of average voters really only by accident)