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I don’t really disagree with anything you wrote.
The thing I still can’t understand is that the consensus of Lemmygrad and other leftist Lemmy instances is that both of these things are somehow true at the same time
And I can’t understand this logic. Voting simultaneously doesn’t matter but also matters and is a full throated endorsement of genocide.
I also agree that we don’t have a real democracy, but if the choice is between “fake democracy with project 2025” and “fake democracy with milquetoast corpos” I’m not sure why I would do anything to help the openly fascist fascists take power.
What I don't understand is how the vote blue demographic still doesn't understand what the arguments of the non-voters actually even are.
So explain it.
I’m sure it feels great up on that high horse to look down on the unwashed masses and tell them “you just don’t understand”
I’ve read Marx, I would love the system to be better. I’m not the vote blue demographic. I’m a human being living in America who understands how the current system of government works and the deep and inherent flaws in this system.
What does not-voting do to change anything? No one seems to be able to answer that simple question.
I get that voting doesn’t fix it. Does not-voting fix it? If not then why do you care if people vote or not? What actually fixes it and why does that thing give a shit whether or not people vote?
ive read marx but i dont understand why you dont want to vote for kamala?!?!
Marx basically tells you to vote for kamala in Luke 1:16!