Voting is good and important. People are afraid of big changes really fast, so every small change that happens in a democratic system makes it easier to pull off the revolutionary band aid in one go.
I think voting in local stuff is hugely important, moreso than national stuff and feels like the easiest way, under current conditions, to actually effect material change.
Like, voting for the lesser evil nationally sucks ass. It's tiresome, and really sucks energy away from local races. But voting for the lesser evil locally is way more important; if you have elected DAs, and one of them is 5% better than the other candidate, that's 5% fewer charges against people in your community. 5% more people who don't have to struggle through court, fines, jail, and having a criminal record. That's a huge impact for extremely low effort. Doing it as part of a org can open up a future where a candidate who is 50% better runs and can win, creating an even larger impact. And your vote counts far more the more local the race.
I don't think anyone would seriously argue voting isn't important. That last bad faith where virgil said "your vote doesn't matter" is more a critique of the system in general. How it's hard to really matter when the electoral college exists, we only ever vote for anything once every two or four years, we're never voting for good candidates just less terrible ones, etc.
Voting is cool and good. That's why we need to expand democracy to give more people more say over what laws are passed and certainly bring democracy into the workplace. And maybe even outlaw anti democratic political organizing like the republican and democratic parties.
Voting is good and important. People are afraid of big changes really fast, so every small change that happens in a democratic system makes it easier to pull off the revolutionary band aid in one go.
I think voting in local stuff is hugely important, moreso than national stuff and feels like the easiest way, under current conditions, to actually effect material change.
Like, voting for the lesser evil nationally sucks ass. It's tiresome, and really sucks energy away from local races. But voting for the lesser evil locally is way more important; if you have elected DAs, and one of them is 5% better than the other candidate, that's 5% fewer charges against people in your community. 5% more people who don't have to struggle through court, fines, jail, and having a criminal record. That's a huge impact for extremely low effort. Doing it as part of a org can open up a future where a candidate who is 50% better runs and can win, creating an even larger impact. And your vote counts far more the more local the race.
I don't think anyone would seriously argue voting isn't important. That last bad faith where virgil said "your vote doesn't matter" is more a critique of the system in general. How it's hard to really matter when the electoral college exists, we only ever vote for anything once every two or four years, we're never voting for good candidates just less terrible ones, etc.
Voting is cool and good. That's why we need to expand democracy to give more people more say over what laws are passed and certainly bring democracy into the workplace. And maybe even outlaw anti democratic political organizing like the republican and democratic parties.