#like unless someone has a real alternative suggestion which voting would actually impede?

[gaycodedvillainy]

I feel like so many of the “whether or not to vote” discourse posts kind of boil down to

Like no shit we do know that the political situation completely sucks, we’re definitely aware

But that doesn’t mean that refusing to take part in it whatsoever is practical or even helpful to anyone provided it somehow was?

We know voting third party being a useless vote is a problem, that doesn’t mean “so we will vote third party because our individual moral views do outweigh the results of refusing to work together”. We know that the electoral college is an elaborate con designed to disenfranchise specific voters, that doesn’t mean that refusing to vote on principle helps those voters either??

As for the “well Trump didn’t have the majority vote last time just the electoral college, but people blamed the election on 3rd party voters and people who refused to vote for either instead of the EC”; the EC isn’t a secret, or a surprise— I am very happy to blame both things, I really don’t care if that hurts feelings? If you can vote, you vote. Yes! Also push to shut the EC down, but refusing to vote does fuck all to shut down the EC

#blah #like unless someone has a real alternative suggestion which voting would actually impede? #but all I’m seeing is the incredibly unlikely possibility of a complete revolution that is somehow invalidated by Biden winning over trump? #like...... please learn that people can vote and ALSO protest #or take other concrete actions #we don’t have some singular political stat like a sad video game character #which voting would eat and render us incapable of anything else......