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You can vote, but at this point, it's objectively clear that (at least at the federal level) your vote is meaningless.
Meaningless how? By what standard? That you didn't get everything you wanted and some people got things they wanted that you object to? That the system itself will not substantially change in your lifetime?
The truth is you vote very much does matter at the federal level. It's literally the difference between life and death for women, trangender people, brown people... there is so much that a Democratic administration prevents and promotes that is meaningful to many in substantive... even existential ways, ever day.
Your Democratic administration betrayed you.
Biden, in his first SOTU, mocked you by saying: "Don't defund the police. Fund them." That's not what he promised to marginalized communities. But, he's always been an authoritarian. Remember the 94 crime bill?
Women, they betrayed by learning about Roe repeal and doing nothing to stop it other than fundraising. They made $80 million, by the way.) Idaho got away with literally criminalizing abortion, which means 2/3 of the states will follow suit in the next year.
As for transgendered people, the Federal Government has done so little to protect them they're fleeing red states. I saw it myself when a member of my roller derby league left Missouri for Oregon.
So... yeah, I disagree. No matter who we elect at the Federal level, we get fascism.
Your vote still matters some at the local level, depending on where you live, but in a few years it won't, because Donald Trump is probably going to be reelected, and that will validate everything he's ever done.
This is such nonsense. Did I get everything I wanted out of any administration? No. Because surprise surprise, I'm not the only person in the country with a vote and with priorities. Your answer to not getting things you want to is to not vote at all so you will get EVEN LESS?
You are dramatically ill-informed and your logic is flawed. We lost Roe V. Wade because we lost the Supreme Court. So you want another Trump administration to solidify the conservative majority to make sure it gets worse? This administration has done a lot to protect reproductive rights. Do I want more? Of course, but I'm not going to... I've been waiting all day to say this... throw the baby out with the bath water because the Dems couldn't do everything. You want to punish them by helping Republicans win the white house? That makes sense to you?
The Dems did a great deal to try to stem the tide here, despite not having a majority in the house. Here's just one of many articles discussing that: https://19thnews.org/2023/06/democrats-house-senate-abortion-dobbs/
The federal government doesn't have jurisdiction over state law. All they can do, which it turns out is quite a bit is use federal agencies and regulations to put in place what protections they can. And this administration has done more than any other, for which I am personally grateful.
This is just an incredibly immature statement to make. We do not have fascism. But there's a decent chance we will under Trump.
Right, so let's bitch and moan about how the Dems aren't doing a good enough job so we can make sure Trump DOES get elected.
Honestly.