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Dems being weaponized dogshite does not absolve voters who let fascists take over the country! :)(lemmy.world)

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Wren@lemmy.worldM
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lesser evil voting is not a democratic ideal.

Neither is staying home and not voting at all.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world
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If you can’t abstain then you don’t have a democracy. (Yes Australia i’m looking at you) You have a system of coerced consent where the political parties wouldn’t even know how to change, but that’s okay because there’s no incentive to change in such a system either.

It’s literally the fastest way to get Party AB instead of Party A and Party B.

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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Great you started with the conclusion that not voting is fine and then tried to find a way to justify it. You failed.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world
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I’m not going to write a 20 page paper for you. This is what it is. If people have to vote then the sitting parties have no reason to respond to voters.

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Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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Then people could abstain by writing in someone else. Not voting is a serious problem.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world
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Write ins aren’t actually a free for all in most states. You have to qualify with signatures for the state to bother counting them. So no, not really.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world
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So in political philosophy ideals are only related to the common definition. This wiki page gives a good use of the philosophical definition in action.

I probably should have used a different word on Lemmy though.

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