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Voting is changing the Oil to keep the engine running (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

3rd parties don’t stand a snowballs chance in hell right now.

Which is a problem that needs to be addressed.

This voting the lesser of two evils won't stop the republicans from getting further to the right, and the democrats to do the same to try and capture more moderate right wing votes.

How many elections will be "don't vote 3rd party vote us or else the other guys will win"? How many problems will be addressed that way? How bad are you going to let these systemic issues plague the US before realizing that "hey maybe this is damaging our democracy and leading down a path towards autocracy"?

Cause the main way for autocrats to rule is for people to stop engaging in politics as they don't feel represented, and that's something you're seeing happening in the US due, also, to a lack of 3rd parties. This creates apathy which autocrats thrive on. And you'll be whining about people not voting your lesser evil all the way to fascism because you were too shortsighted in winning X election to see the issue at large.