You vote for the lesser evil because that’s the limit of what you can achieve in the voting booth. But voting isn’t the only thing you can do to change society, obviously. I think these kinds of posts are missing the bigger picture
I agree. The long game is to form a grassroots party that reflects your values and gains enough traction to be relevant. But the short game remains the lesser of two evils, lest you never have the chance to play the long game
Only getting elected because liberals have no preverbial balls to do what’s right and refuse to support fascism. We don’t need or want the support of evil, the goal is to eliminate the evil
Voters get what they want, rarely, but it does happen sometimes.
Non voters have to take much riskier and more costly actions to be acknowledged.
Funny thing is most Americans can do both. Direct action rarely leads to losing voting rights, and voting certainly doesn’t prevent organizing or direct action.
You vote for the lesser evil because that’s the limit of what you can achieve in the voting booth. But voting isn’t the only thing you can do to change society, obviously. I think these kinds of posts are missing the bigger picture
I agree. The long game is to form a grassroots party that reflects your values and gains enough traction to be relevant. But the short game remains the lesser of two evils, lest you never have the chance to play the long game
By supporting the people that are gonna kill your grassroots movement using their constituents as the weapon?
Is the greater of two evils going to do any more to support your movement? One of the two is getting elected, whether anyone likes it or not
Only getting elected because liberals have no preverbial balls to do what’s right and refuse to support fascism. We don’t need or want the support of evil, the goal is to eliminate the evil
If you honestly think absetention is more useful than engagement then by all mean abstain. The rest of us will make the decisions.
Your vote has zero impact on politicians or policy. You’ve trained them they don’t have to listen to you and you will keep coming back.
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Voters get what they want, rarely, but it does happen sometimes.
Non voters have to take much riskier and more costly actions to be acknowledged.
Funny thing is most Americans can do both. Direct action rarely leads to losing voting rights, and voting certainly doesn’t prevent organizing or direct action.
Your lesser evil has gone from no death camps to 50 in this scenario.
Then we’ll have to bully them into abolishing one less death camp