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The problem with voting is that people are simply not engaged in politics anymore. I have never voted and never will. To be impactful you have to be a politici
by himata4113 5mo ago
The problem with voting is that people are simply not engaged in politics anymore. I have never voted and never will.
To be impactful you have to be a politician and that's a full-time job which lives off donations. We need more politicans, but we don't have a reward structure to support them so we have too few politicians which means the few are funded by powerful people making even fewer make the decisions.
Just to make myself clear, when I say politicians I mean someone who tries to bring politican change, not someone who works in the government making decisions.
Democracy sounds nice, but it assumes people want to participate in it: actively validate facts, find truthful information not just vote whoever promises more of what you like.
Of course on the other hand you have the european federation: they are able to make unpopular choices, but at a steep cost which ends up hurting the member states and making the general population pretty hateful of the european central government.
Governments are too big to change, but what we have doesn't work and we're probably going to be in a world of hurt as the american type democracy(japan, australia, etc) is being manipulated from all sides, federations are uncompetitive and dictatorships becoming the strongest government there is being able to accelerate faster than anyone else and becoming the defacto world power.
- warkdarrior 5mo agoAgreed, someone should do something to fix the problem that you discussed so eloquently.
- himata4113 5mo agoI've just described the current politican system there's nothing to fix, it's a reality we live in. It's nothing more than a rant.
- 01100011 5mo agoEveryone pushes voting and sure, you should vote if you're able, but the other half of the puzzle is you need to have good options to vote for. Politicians are relatively low paid for the expertise we want and so many of the folks running are people looking to supplement their income with influence peddling and grift.
- himata4113 5mo agoThis is why I wrote such a strong statement I don't have anyone to vote for and looking back at the history of my country I had never had a politican I would have wanted to vote for.
- no-name-here 5mo agoAre you from the US?
- himata4113 5mo agoNo, but previous politicians have always setup future politicians for failure and the current politicians don't want to do anything about it since it would cause them to very likely lose the future elections so instead they choose to kick the can down the road as they say. The politican system is built in a way where there can't be someone I'd be willing to vote for as they would simply lose the election therefore there wouldn't be a politician campainging for something that would gurantee them a loss. And historically is closer to "modern democracy" rather than people from a thousand years ago.
- chairmansteve 5mo ago> but the other half of the puzzle is you need to have good options to vote for. No. It's always been that you get to choose the least bad option. Unless you fall for the personality cults that sometimes develop around politicians.
- reddozen 5mo ago> I have never voted and never will. Thank you for putting the reason at the top to disregard the rest of your post-hoc justification. Your prescriptions literally don't matter because you will never engage with the political system.
- himata4113 5mo agoI don't vote because I am uneducated enough in local politics to do so I would only be corrupting the vote and dilluting votes that are that of people who did their research. This is an opinionated take, but voting just to vote is pointless and does more harm than good. I guess I should have positioned that at the end instead of making that the opening statement.
- xboxnolifes 5mo agoThis used to also be my stance, but I eventually changed it on the reasoning that the "people who did their research" that I was diluting, did not in fact exist in any meaningful number. If you believe yourself to be a somewhat intelligent person, doing even a small amount of intentional research into what you are voting on puts you way ahead of the average voter on how informed you are.
- reddozen 5mo ago[dead]
- libertine 5mo agoHave at least some conversations with people you trust, that's the bare minimum. Saying you're uneducated in local politics is just an excuse you're making to justify your actions. Local politics isn't filled with much drama, and probably isn't that entertaining, but that exactly the problem with global and national politics - it's all driven by dopamine. You shouldn't vote just to vote, you should vote to make some sort of change (or not), and it's ok to be wrong in this decision. That's why democracy is great, it renews itself every X years.
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- platevoltage 5mo ago> The problem with voting is that people are simply not engaged in politics anymore. I have never voted and never will. Seems like you identified the problem. I'm definitely the type that thinks there is nothing salvageable from the current U.S. system that was dreamt up by a bunch of racists who thought owning other human beings was acceptable, but I also believe that voting is a form of harm reduction. The people who want to do harm vote, and they do it reliably.
- ImJamal 5mo agoLarge chunks of the founders were opposed to slavery. John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Gouverneur Morris, Sam Adams and more.
- mrguyorama 5mo ago[flagged]
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