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So stop doing the most influential thing citizens can do to affect the government?
What’s step two? Accept the Republican takeover or fail to violently overthrow the government resulting in massive losses?
You and givesomegucks should stop encouraging voter disengagement.
We’re only here from repeated failure to vote and fruitless attempts to elect third-party candidates.
That's like asking leopards to become vegan or fish to breath oxygen
I agree with the sentiment, but I think you mean air. Fish breathe oxygen from the water through their gills. That’s one of the many problems with climate change deoxygenating the ocean.
Haha yeah, I literally paused for a moment to decide which was most correct -- I chose wrongly I suppose.
It’s all good. Your point is correct.
One thing I quite like about Lemmy is that it's very easy to recognize individual users and the type of comments they usually leave.
"If voting made a difference, they would make it illegal"
"One party is trying "
Minor nitpick: while participating in voting is an important component of politics, I don't think it's accurate to say it's the most influential thing you can do. It's not even the most influential thing you can do if you're strictly operating in the framework of electoralism.
How would you influence this vote? Writing your Representative would help if they weren’t block voting Republicans.
Volunteering in a campaign, running for office, designing and/or distributing pamphlets. All of these are potentially more effective than voting because you could get more than one vote for your preferred candidate that way.
And that's just the obvious conventional stuff. If we get into theoretical strategies shit gets wild.
That’s fair.