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If you do not vote, you are participating in the agenda of the authoritarians who want to take the right to vote away from everyone (e.g. Donald Trump saying "you won't have to vote anymore"). "Voting doesn't matter" is their propaganda. If you repeat his message, you have been fooled by the propaganda and are now helping to spread it.
DO NOT BUY THIS CRAP.
If you encourage others not to vote, you are complicit with the authoritarians.
I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, but fucking VOTE. People fought wars over that, demanded changes in law for that, marched on Washington for that, got assassinated for speaking about that. Anyone who tells you it doesn't matter is a fool, ignorant of the lessons of history.
If my agenda is for you to not participate in the vote, then by abstaining you end up participating in my agenda whether you want to or not. If I can disappoint you to the point of not bothering the next time, then that's 1 less person affecting the outcome of the vote, making it incrementally easier to forecast and manipulate the results.
Others have said it better than I, but I worry this just plays into the hands of authoritarians who rely on apathy such as this to seize more power. I implore you to find your own terms on which you can engage with politics, but do (re) engage with them.
Just because some of us stop paying attention to "politics" doesn't mean politicians lose any power - it generally goes the other way.
I don't see the point of saving one days' effort and earnings to let trump into office and now have to pay more on so many goods and services because of his actions and policies.
the rich elitist hypocrite may not make it into office without your support, but they'll survive fine without it. Your own quality of life will actively worsen if you just stop voting, so I hope you've found ways to offset that (like a more local community and/or support network).
For what it’s worth, I put you in the “enlightened centrist” box. Someone who is heavily influenced by the far right and genuinely doesn’t realize it. You may not be MAGA, but you are most definitely being manipulated into doing their work. Your own words admit as much to us all, even if you haven’t realized it.
You sure do a lot of complaining for someone who doesn't participate.
I hope you mean that you vote for third party candidates, rather than not voting. Voting does matter - you're sending a message by who you do or don't vote for. Not voting sends the message that you aren't engaged with politics and therefore your opinions don't matter. Voting for a third party sends the message that you aren't happy with the current status quo.
No, they wouldn't, because you've shown them through voter apathy that they can safely ignore you. Doing things you want politically won't benefit them and ignoring you won't harm them. If you aren't going to engage with them, why would they engage with you?
You've presented an opinion as fact and don't have anything to back it up. The issue you're having here is completely self inflicted.
I'm not your buddy, pal.