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Because elections are for a different purpose than we are taught. We are told to vote for candidates who most closely match our preferences but see them turn fr
by brightstep 5y ago
Because elections are for a different purpose than we are taught. We are told to vote for candidates who most closely match our preferences but see them turn from their promises, time after time, toward a bipartisan project of war, environmental destruction, enrichment of corporations, etc. What our votes really do is provide legitimacy to this system. Your choice is to vote for the bipartisan consensus or to abstain.
- dane-pgp 5y ago> What our votes really do is provide legitimacy to this system. Are you really hoping that you can convince enough people to abstain that eventually the two major parties will have an epiphany and feel so ashamed that they'll fix the voting system to allow more competition and better representation? I think you really need to consider who you are up against here, which is people who are prepared to fight dirty for unchecked and undeserved power, who will treat your abstention as being consent for their misrule.
- brightstep 5y agoNo, I'm not advocating abstention from voting. Maybe I was a little too harsh. Sometimes voting can make a big difference, but more often than not it doesn't. That doesn't mean we shouldn't engage.