If voting didn't work, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from doing it.
This country has the potential to be everything we were told it is already and more, but it will take hard, persistent, and undeterred work keeping republicans out and reshaping the democratic party to be the vehicle for the change this land made for you and me needs.
If voting didn’t work, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you from doing it.
Ding ding ding. The Republican playbook relies so heavily on disenfranchising voters for a reason.
If voting didn’t work, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you from doing it.
I'm distressed by how easily they can stop large numbers of people from voting (or submitting votes in a meaningful way).
hard, persistent, and undeterred work
Corollary:
If voting third-party didn't work, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting third-party.
Sir we're hitting based levels that shouldn't even be possible
How fucking hard is it to vote, you walk to your mailbox, fill it out, and put it back in. It’s not rocket science
There seem to be a lot of people - who are definitely not russian-inspired trolls - who are very clear that they shall not sully themselves to participate in American democracy as the entirety of their specific demands have not been accomplished by the party currently occupying the white house.
Your privilege is showing
Problem is exclusively voting for people who benefit from reinforcing the current corrupt system. Who votin for the candidate pushing for ranked choice voting?
I am. My state will go blue either way so I might as well help their numbers for ballot access later. There are also congressional Democrats who support RCV, and they've won my vote.
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Vote the democrats in so you can live to continue the fight and pull them further left tomorrow in the remnants of a somewhat functioning democracy.
Or vote republican and say weakly, "but I'm one of the good ones?" with tears in your eyes as they kick in your front door and string you up on the wall.
Heh, I made that top image (of this meme template), so sorry about the knuckles and bad hand... Just used Photoshop and a mouse. Don't know who drew the bottom image, someone with more skill that's for sure! I think I still have the Photoshop file of my bit somewhere.
Vote your conscience. There will always only be two parties if you only every vote for one of two parties.
The 2 party system is kept alive by the electoral college that incentivizes 2 party voting. If there was actual proportional representation, I would agree.
Except in the states where most of the population lives, one of the duopoly parties has a full-on monopoly and your general election vote actually doesn't matter for any office of substance (or primary if you have the misfortune to be a member of the DNC, the party that only allows primaries against the 6 progressives left in the party)
I agree we should get rid of the electoral college.
You could always vote for downticket candidates competing within their party for other offices
You could in some states. In states with a strong enough of a democrat monopoly, the party picks candidates ala the CCP, and destroys anyone who dares compete (like the NY dems did to Scott Stringer for daring to run against the anointed Eric Adams).
Still matters because the president isn't the only thing on the ballot.
That's a great argument for Biden dropping out to not drag down all the swing state seats where the dems are ahead but he's behind!
Which office doesn't have substance exactly?
Depends on the municipality. In NYC, you have "borough presidents," which are county level executive officers with no actual responsibilities (this was Eric Adams previous "job" before mayor). Virtually every municipality has its share of random do-nothing offices like that.
