YES - voting is not a sign of weakness or complacency. And not voting because you oppose the system doesn’t register in broader society as opposition - it registers as apathy, which just emboldens these assholes.
If you’re an American who doesn’t vote “on principle”, please reconsider. You don’t have to vote for people you don’t like. You don’t even have to cast a vote in all the races. But do vote. I guarantee there is someone on your ballot you want to support, be it a Green or an Independent, or an especially maverick Democrat. Heck, there might even be a Socialist on your ballot.
And don’t forget there are state and local races too, and those are much easier to impact than federal races. Even if The Donald has a successful coup this time around, you’ll be better off living in a town run by people who aren’t beholden to the duopoly, and that only happens if people of conscience vote.
If everyone who refused to vote out of some principled notion instead voted their conscience, we’d have a very different government from the one we have now. It would still suffer from corruption and manipulation by the ownership class, but much less so than it does currently.
YES - voting is not a sign of weakness or complacency. And not voting because you oppose the system doesn’t register in broader society as opposition - it registers as apathy, which just emboldens these assholes.
If you’re an American who doesn’t vote “on principle”, please reconsider. You don’t have to vote for people you don’t like. You don’t even have to cast a vote in all the races. But do vote. I guarantee there is someone on your ballot you want to support, be it a Green or an Independent, or an especially maverick Democrat. Heck, there might even be a Socialist on your ballot.
And don’t forget there are state and local races too, and those are much easier to impact than federal races. Even if The Donald has a successful coup this time around, you’ll be better off living in a town run by people who aren’t beholden to the duopoly, and that only happens if people of conscience vote.
If everyone who refused to vote out of some principled notion instead voted their conscience, we’d have a very different government from the one we have now. It would still suffer from corruption and manipulation by the ownership class, but much less so than it does currently.