• TipRing@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Politicians famously consider the opinions of people who don’t vote. /s

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        20 days ago

        I mean they do, insofar as it might be easier to convert someone not voting into someone voting for them than it is to convert someone voting for their opponent.

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        20 days ago

        That’s why you vote uncommitted. There’s no way to ignore that message or use any of their usual excuses.

        But the Democrats understand what they need to do in order to win election, they’re just so latched to the corporate tit that they won’t do it. Think they can get a few more gulps of that sweet lobby money before things get “serious”. The pigs are too busy feeding to give a fuck about our democracy collapsing.

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      20 days ago

      Protest voting would be aimed at reforming a democratic party that’s unfit to confront fascism. It’s a legitimate strategy whether you agree with it or not.

      Another Biden term will not do anything to mitigate Democratic complicity with fascism. Establishment dems are quite literally worse than useless.

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        Except it doesn’t reform. You win elections from the center, so if Dems lose they go further to the center. Because those are the voters that exist.

        No-voting accomplishes literally nothing. It never has and it never will. In reality, it’s counter productive every time.