This goes to all the peeps who support parliamentary voting as a valid political action.
If your society has been steadily progressing towards fascism for decades regardless of your voting (like the USA has been), is there any point, any action which will convince you that voting ultimately doesn’t work?
Is so, what is it? What would your government have to do for you to acknowledge that voting doesn’t matter? For many people, it was of course, supporting genocide (which is why so many states desperately try to deny a genocide is ongoing). But if genocide isn’t, what is yours?
Eventually a society which has been slowly progressing towards fascism regardless of voting, will become fascist. And we all know what comes after that. There’s always one thing where I think even the most hardcore parliamentarian will agree that voting ultimately didn’t work: When they’re personally being force-marched to the mass grave-sites.
Would that be your point? Or does it come earlier? If so, when?
All of that and more is a red line for me, which is why I’m not voting and doing everything that actually matters to stop them.
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Yes “that actually matters” being the key words
Can you outline those things that actually matter, that you are doing?
Direct action for mutual aid. Anarchism. I’m helping my fellow humans outside of the capitalist system with my every waking moment that is not dedicated to survival.
can you be more specific than just saying direct action? Like what does this action entail? What do you go out and do?
My main focus and expertise is making and running FOSS.
Can I ask why you aren’t voting third party? Is it to avoid at all legitimizing the relevant institutions/systems?
I’m voting third party so that, hypothetically, Dems can see that those votes exist, and maybe consider trying to earn them by adopting leftist policy positions. I know they very likely won’t though, tbc, but it’s a more likely event than a third party candidate winning
Exactly. The whole system is rotten, and any votes is legitimizing it.
That makes sense! That’s how I feel about veganism. Even if the meat has already been processed and will go to waste if I don’t eat it, I’m still not eating it