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Not voting is a poor way to show dissent since it practically gives your vote to whoever gets the majority. Better then to vote for yourself, vote blank, vote
by fifilura 2y ago
Not voting is a poor way to show dissent since it practically gives your vote to whoever gets the majority.
Better then to vote for yourself, vote blank, vote for whoever you would rather have in charge, or vote for the least bad.
- alkonaut 2y agoYes. It's important to vote IF you think the elections are legitimate and fair. By voting (blank, for yourself, for Mickey Mouse) you say "I didn't like any of the candidates, but I'm ready to accept the result of the majority", thereby giving more legitimacy to whoever is elected. Not voting can be dissent (I disagree with the process, I don't think it's fair etc) or simply apathy. But in either case it gives less legitimacy to whoever is elected. And that's important: if you don't think it's a fair election/process then you don't want to give the legitimacy.
- sixstringtheory 2y agoWho here believes Trump will pull punches because the election wasn’t satisfactorily legitimizing? If you get killed on the high ground, you’re still dead.
- pjc50 2y agoI don't think you've adapted to the level of motivated reasoning in current politics: if people want to declare the election illegitimate, they will do so, and they can make up claims about how it's illegitimate faster than you can debunk them.