Its the primaries over here and its peoples chance to choose who will run on the democratic ticket in the general election. You may not like the two party system or the lack of rank choice voting but this is peoples chance to determine who might take governement positions. I hope no one who throws out the democrats don’t do enough are voting in the primaries because otherwise they are the reason what we get with democrats is what it is. Primaries because its just one party pretty much doubles the value of ones vote and further since they get less turnout it at least doubles it again. So the vote effect is in excess of 3x at a minimum. Citizenship in the us has two repsonsibilities. Voting and jury duty. Both are important to democracy.
Not voting is cowardice and a sign of white privilege. Some of us had to have our forefathers fight for the right to vote; through lynching, poll tax, dred Scott, and so on.
So some of us can’t afford to not vote for survival.
Glad you can be comfortable in your “political act.”
uh lol i vote. it’s literally one of the first things i said. i was explaining the rationale behind some non-voters.
Don’t get me wrong, voting for the democrats is technically your best available option for prolonging your survival within the electoral system. However, the Democrats will absolutely betray you as soon as it becomes politically feasible. Look at how they have not only abandoned trans people, but often acted against them in recent years. The machine does not see you as any different even if the people involved sometimes do. Your rights are only protected so long as your identity as a marginalized person is beneficial to them. Should public opinion towards your identity become controversial they will not fight for you. Their #1 goal is to get elected and if protecting your rights does not accomplish that they will no longer pretend they care about you.
Vote for democrats if you feel it will preserve your safety a little longer but engage with alternatives as backup for when they eventually abandon you. Please do not trust people who commit genocide to protect you. Anyone willing to intentionally starve entire countries, put immigrants in concentration camps, and funnel weapons into fascist hands cannot be trusted with your rights. All of those actions have bipartisan support. Please involve yourself with local political organizing and mutual aid programs. It may literally be life and death someday.