Speaking of abstention from voting. I’ve lost count of how many non-voters have told me that “not voting is not inaction”. Often saying voting is going above and beyond. Saying that protesting is the bare minimum. These children don’t understand it’s exactly the opposite. You can protest and campaign for days, but if you end up never voting, then you didn’t do the bare minimum and it was all pointless.
I also find it odd that these people always have the exact same talking points and the exact same failed “gotchas”. It’s almost like they are all watching/listening to some left version of Fox News.
I can understand their feelings of powerlessness in a two party system where both parties suck. Here in Canada the concept of strategic voting has been the norm for at least the past 20 years because people are aware of how shit the first past the post system is and how it forces us into a two party race we don’t want but need to compromise on to make progress. We’ve spent that time trying to make viable third parties and that has worked to pressure the Canadian version of the Democrats to court more leftist politicians for support and minority governments with three parties have caused a steady march towards a better chance at fixing the underlying issue.
But unfortunately that’s bred a backlash from people who think very much like Republicans. It was very rough watching Americans fall into a trap we Canadians have been stepping strategically around for so long.
And by not voting or voting third-party, you and 90 million (non-voters) and 3 million (third-party) others have collectively decided authoritarianism was worth a try. At least my candidate was talking about peace talks and can be peacefully protested. Harris on Ceasefire
Good job, but we all lost.
