• knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    9 months ago

    Neither party represents my interests and, as you’ve seen, the “lesser evil” argument doesn’t motivate me in the slightest. If you want me to vote for Dems then you’ll have to make them worth voting for and stop acting like they can coast to victory on fear of the Republicans alone.

    I’m aware of FPTP and its mathematical implications, our country is designed to provide only the appearance of democracy while actually limiting choice to those candidates the parties deem inoffensive to their campaign financiers. And we’re stuck with them unless you can convince the two-party state to abolish the leverage it has over third parties, so stop acting like they’ll let you vote your way out of this situafion.

    Real change would require a political revolution, and I’ve long since lost my faith that Americans would build something less fascist given the chance.

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      9 months ago

      And there it is. The dumbest thing I’ll read all day.

      Let me know when the 2 party stranglehold allows you to vote it out. Until then you’ll sit high atop your bullshit mountain preaching on the internet, whining on and on about how things should be.

      Meanwhile, completely oblivious that you and people like you are exactly the reason why we don’t have enough voting power to enact real change.

      You don’t even irritate me. I pity you.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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        9 months ago

        Let me know when the 2 party stranglehold allows you to vote it out.

        You’re the one insisting I don’t have a choice here. Why should anyone bother helping reinforce a system designed to disenfranchise them? To keep the “wrong people” from taking power, as if that wasn’t already the case?

        If that sounds like Accelerationism to you, then you’re reading me correctly. Preservation of the intolerable status quo only delays and inflames the inevitable upheaval.

        Meanwhile, completely oblivious that you and people like you are exactly the reason why we don’t have enough voting power to enact real change.

        Oblivious?

        No, I’m counting on it. The Democrats won’t change unless they have to, and people like me are the ones they need to change for. People like you, who “vote blue no matter who”, can be safely ignored by party leadership since they know you’ll vote for them anyway.