Off My Chest
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It's not the symbol of rejection you think it is. It's full on capitulation. It's walking away while your house is on fire, pretending you're going to stop the fire by doing literally nothing about it.
it's not to the people who don't vote. you're not going to persuade them morally they have likely done a lot of thinking about their decision. voting forces you participate in American colonialism and they cannot justify that within themselves.
It really doesn't. At all.
no, it absolutely does. it gives us a false sense of control and instead of stopping the machine we simply keep it going through broken methods of comfort like voting.
Most people that actually know what they're talking about fully and completely understand that voting is hardly even the start of corrective action, let alone the full solution...
voting is not going to end capitalism, period. nobody to be taken seriously thinks it will or that it's even possible. voting can be useful at the local level. i don't blame people for not voting in federal elections.