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The problem with not voting (fedia.io)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Voting for negative reason only leads to an implicit cartel where the fascists are being more and more obnoxious and the libs more and more centrists. Why would they do anything right, they have their alter ego to scare people off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I agree 100%. That is why voting alone is not going to solve problems. Organization must happen. Voting gives us time not change. Biden will be 4 years of slow decay and garbage. Trump will be 4 years of fast decay and by the end of it, we may all be arrested for having this discussion on Lemmy. Maybe after Biden and Trump die, there will be better candidates thanks to the organization.

I'm not saying everyone has to vote. I am saying that we should encourage people to vote.

I see it like this:

  • If we vote. We lose a day worth of organizing effort. We tip the scales towards a president that probably wont try to remove democracy. We probably get 4 more years of organization time plus more depending on the next president elected. We get to keep fighting.
  • If we don't vote. We gain a days worth of organizing effort. We tip the scales towards a president that will probably try to become a dictator and has the means to do so. Maybe we get at most 4 more years of organizing done, then that is it. We either need to have a revolution or give up.

I hate it, but this is how the math works out in my head. I don't understand what we gain that would outweigh the losses by not voting.