• darq
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    12 years ago

    Voting alone also doesn’t work because the options provided and the specifics of the voting system are decided by people who have an incentive to rig them in their favour. You cannot vote for options that are not allowed.

    Hence needing to vote, and do more outside of voting, rather than sheepishly just doing the same thing for decades while it fails over and over again.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 years ago

      I would like to believe in your approach but I don’t believe in protests. That’s transferring union tactics from companies to the state. It’s valid in a monarchy but in a democracy, you can talk to other voters and have them support your cause. The citizens are the state.

      Votes drive change. Believing in other means distracts from the real origin of power.

      But votes have to be negotiated. Blindly voting for one’s own team turns citizens into a product.