Now do not voting/non-participation. Is that increasing democracy? Is it leading to positive outcomes? Does it lead to outcomes that are even marginally better than voting?

Comparing voting to gambling is asinine, since not gambling has no effect on you, but not voting does not. And whether or not my vote increases democracy, not voting doesn’t increase it either and leads to outcomes like we have now.

It’s a cute idea, but that’s about it and only really makes sense if you choose not to be pragmatic in the slightest.

Well, they’re the only other game in town unless you want to sit back and let the fascists take power because people stayed home like they did this year, our hands are pretty much tied come election day. And that is a fact I will keep repeating as long as people refuse to understand that our country is run via electoral politics and no amount of sitting out will change that.

I’m all for getting better candidates on the ballot, but when the only alternative is naked fascism, telling people to stay home or not vote for them is a great way of shooting your pet causes in the foot.

Yep, I’ve bitched about that for the better part of the intervening 8 years. Still not sure if the establishment learned the right lesson from 2016.

We already know how we got here, which is why it doesn’t help anything to bitch and moan about how “both sides suck”.

Clearly, given how the power structure is doing things differently, right?

Quit your bitching and infighting and blaming everyone else, and focus on what we can do now.

Yeah, try to get the establishment to understand a lesson on what failed and have them finally back policies that will encourage people to show up so I don’t have to spend 6 months begging people to vote for them because they fucked the dog yet again?

Judge by what he accomplished

Getting said literal fascist elected by doing fuck all to solve the problems he said he would, gave said fascist a pass by assigning a mealy mouthed investigator, and hanging out in the race long enough to help depress turnout?

We can play the blame game all day, but unfortunately what’s done is done and the time to take action is yesterday.

We also need to understand why we got to this place, and saying “who the fuck cares” just emboldens the Dems in power to keep trying the same shit that doesn’t work.

It’s also a play by play of what the Christian right did in the 60s/70s on abortion. Went from being a non-issue for most people to people firebombing abortion clinics within like a decade or two.

“Does this for profit news agency require money for information? Then surely academic research needs to require money to get the info as well! Nevermind that public funds are involved with a lot of research initially where news orgs don’t have that, we need to make a profit cuz reasons!”

Do you have a guide or something to get started? I’ve considered doing this a couple of times, but haven’t had the bandwidth to dig in and figure it out.

The right/conservative ideology IS the propaganda used to prevent the uprising lol.

Right? What could go wrong by mixing business and government?

starts with a capital ‘i’

poser

Batman splitting in two every time he sexists another sexist to keep the balance.

Don’t trust your eyes, only what the party tells you