• Postimo@lemmy.zip
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      10 hours ago

      I think this mentality breaks down in the reality of the system we currently have. They are constantly working to make your vote mean less. The structures of our constitution effective gerrymander the states’ influence on national levels through the senate. Similarly, the electoral collage is built to favor the right. And after all that the higher courts have been packed by republican, effectively giving an override to functionally any law in the form of sloppy logic from a broken supreme court.

      All of that to say, if you draw the line at specifically your ability to cast a vote, regardless of the voice you actually have, you’ve essentially decided so long as there is the theater of democracy you will do nothing to help save it.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      That might be a little like “not using the fire extinguisher until the fire has spread into the living room.”

      Too little, too late. Trump is talking about suspendeding the midterms. Might be time to show some guns.