I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • sakodak@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

    I didn’t abstain. I voted for a candidate that didn’t support genocide while living in a solidly oligarch controlled state. What you would probably call “throwing my vote away.”

    But no voter had a say in this past election. It was a struggle between the corporatist and oligarch branches of the capitalist class, and the oligarchs threw more money at buying the election.

    That’s it. No need to vote shame, regardless of if someone did or did not vote. It should be blatantly obvious by now that the Office of the President is (well, was) a rental. Now the oligarchs bought it from the corporatist landlords and plan to remodel and reside in it forever.

    There is no war but class war. Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Organize. Let’s make voting useful again.