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What is your voting red line? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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This goes to all the peeps who support parliamentary voting as a valid political action.

If your society has been steadily progressing towards fascism for decades regardless of your voting (like the USA has been), is there any point, any action which will convince you that voting ultimately doesn't work?

Is so, what is it? What would your government have to do for you to acknowledge that voting doesn't matter? For many people, it was of course, supporting genocide (which is why so many states desperately try to deny a genocide is ongoing). But if genocide isn't, what is yours?

Eventually a society which has been slowly progressing towards fascism regardless of voting, will become fascist. And we all know what comes after that. There's always one thing where I think even the most hardcore parliamentarian will agree that voting ultimately didn't work: When they're personally being force-marched to the mass grave-sites.

Would that be your point? Or does it come earlier? If so, when?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If the system imposes two evil candidates or options to me, I reject the system. I'm just not deluded about my state in the machine like most liberals.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah, that’s basically giving up any power you do have.

let me know how the direct action works out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's not power. It's an illusion. Direct action is what has given us anything from the 40 hour week to civil rights.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are you thinking about the election result these days?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm hoping it will radicalize people to work to outside the rotten system now that they see their checks and balances were just smoke and mirrors.