@SwiftOnSecurity the other side of the coin, indeed. as much as i loathe the voting is all it ever takes crowd, i loathe the i dont care about the outcome of the election because i dont like either of the choices even though one is going to send deathsquads to my or my neighbors house and the other one simply isnt crowd.
@SwiftOnSecurity if people opt out they just don't care - your opinion means nothing to them, clearly, and besides - the choice to vote or not is highly personal and should be a right, not a requirement
If you want better candidates, you have to vote and keep voting.
You need to choose the best people in lower positions so they can be prepared to take on greater positions. You need to vote in primaries, to make sure your party standard barer represents its platform the best according to you.
Democracy is a verb. You do a democracy. And you have to keep doing democracy. Forever. Or it ceases.
@SwiftOnSecurity Also, choose the least-worst of the viable candidates. Voting for a third-party without ranked-choice voting is, like abstention, a half-vote for the front-runner you hate most.
@SwiftOnSecurity@Lazarou America needs to ask itself if it’s ready to lose existing privileges in the worldwide economy.
If the country turns tyrannical… Where will the experts leave the USA for? Who will abide by USA copyright & patents? Boycotts? Trade agreements? If America is no longer trustworthy as a country, what are the consequences?
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Just like cancer, the only way to restore democracy to the US is to completely excise the diseased flesh.
This can only be achieved if Everyone Votes against the problem.
Once the disease has been utterly destroyed, the body can heal.
Ask any cancer survivor is Chemo and Surgery was fun and they will tell you to vote.
@SwiftOnSecurity I will even consider a blank vote as respectable. At least you did your duty as a citizen. If you don't even bother going, your opinions don't really matter.
Voting is an emotional shield from realizing that does not matter who you vote for because the system is rigged, and the only solution to that involves unsavoury stuff that you don't want to think about. The bad part is that since voting is useless everything will get worse and worse until eventually everything breaks down and you have to deal with it a anyway. It is a fucked up situation.