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    1 year ago

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

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      51 year ago

      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.

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      121 year ago

      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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        41 year ago

        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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          21 year ago

          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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            11 year ago

            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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          31 year 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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      11 year ago

      If only there was a way we could put candidates in position to enact the change we want…. Hmmmm… Seriously, like… What if we created a system where we the people do something… I don’t know- choose their favorite candidate to do these things in a competition of sorts to see who gets to lead the country…

      What should we call it?

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            11 year ago

            Not at all. Voting is defensive. Activism is offensive. We vote for the least worst candidate put forth by a major party in national level elections that stands a chance to win. All we need that person to do is stay out of the way. Then we vote for super progressive loval candidates (school boards, city council, etc).