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Choosing not to vote also factors in to the "will of the people". If you don't vote, you have no one to blame but yourself. If you vote for candidates that enab
by fastball 3y ago
Choosing not to vote also factors in to the "will of the people". If you don't vote, you have no one to blame but yourself. If you vote for candidates that enable/abide the military-industrial complex, the same applies.
If you vote, but not for those people, and those people win anyway, well... that's how democracy works.
- marssaxman 3y ago> If you vote for candidates that enable/abide the military-industrial complex That description covers all of the candidates.
- sneak 3y ago> If you don't vote, you have no one to blame but yourself. This is the central lie/blame assignment of democracy, and it is plainly false on its face. How can someone totally uninvolved in a process be in any way whatsoever responsible for the outcome of that process? You also go on to refute it yourself in the next paragraph. On that, we are in agreement: there is no fundamental problem with the state that can be fixed by voting. Voting legitimizes the fraudulent and coercive system; abstaining is a vote for its invalidity. More people consider the system invalid than participate in it. I think political posts should be empty if more people abstain from voting than vote for any single candidate.