• zeekaran
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    10 months ago

    Cool does that mean they’re gonna vote this time

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      10 months ago

      Will they have a candidate who seems worth voting for? The answer to both questions is “probably not”.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah. It’s the voters fault. Not the candidate. Not the DNC. Not the duopoly. Not the electoral college.

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        I’ve said this in another thread, but American youths just don’t vote, unlike older folks. This is not a recent phenomenon, this goes all the way back if you look at voter turnout records stretching back from the 1960s.

        Young Americans from across generations love to complain but don’t do anything. In other countries, the youths are more energised and proactive. You’d notice their politicians are much younger, manifesting the youthful proactivity. American politicians are older on average, because older folks vote more, and voters prefer someone who is their peers whether they realise it or not.

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          I’m saying this in this thread, politics isn’t just voting. Liberals think that voting is the only way to effect change, when it is the least effective, if not performative. Organize, create parties, movements, struggle, strike, protest.

          If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

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            10 months ago

            Why not organise AND vote? It’s not like there hasn’t been other third parties elected before, especially at the local level.

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            I’m saying this in this thread, politics isn’t just voting.

            Yes.

            If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

            No.

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              I’m saying this in this thread, politics isn’t just voting.

              Yes.

              Flotsam

              If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

              No.

              Jetsam

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        If young people actually voted we would have Congress members that understand technology and are interested in fair voting systems. Instead geriatric and withered insider traders or desiccated obstructionist ghouls.

        An estimated entire 1/3 of people eligible did not vote in 2020. Do you understand how much of Congress groups could have with those votes?

        Meanwhile the insurrectionists vote religiously and they have managed to jam up Congress from doing anything at all. If sane, normal people don’t vote the building fills up with clowns.