I'll have to disagree with Caitlin and Tim on one point: Your voting DOES matter in US elections, but not because it's sending a signal to the Dems or the Repugs or the oligarchy or whatever is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Your vote matters to your FELLOW AMERICANS and possibly to your own psyche. You need to understand where YOU stand at this point in history. Are you pro-genocide or anti-genocide? Let your fellow Americans know that you are anti-genocide by voting for an anti-genocide/peace candidate such as Jill Stein, Cornel West or Claudia de la Cruz. Screw the Ds and Rs! Tell everyone that you are decidedly against genocide by helping these alternative peace candidates get some publicity by adding to their vote totals. Put a smile on their faces--and yours--and let the powers-that-be that you're on to their puppet string pulling in the White House.
The oligarchs are depending on a low turn-out. It's been a low turn-out for decades now. You're not making any statement that way. It it worked, it would have worked by now. Better to show up and vote your conscience and let them know how you feel.
A low turn-out just shows the oligarchy that they "win", that we've given up, rolled over, decided not to fight back. They are free to do to us as they will, which won't be pretty and might make this current genocide look like a walk in the park. I don't know about you, but I'm no coward. I'm fighting back until my dying breath. I'm letting them know that I don't agree with them.
I'll have to disagree with Caitlin and Tim on one point: Your voting DOES matter in US elections, but not because it's sending a signal to the Dems or the Repugs or the oligarchy or whatever is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Your vote matters to your FELLOW AMERICANS and possibly to your own psyche. You need to understand where YOU stand at this point in history. Are you pro-genocide or anti-genocide? Let your fellow Americans know that you are anti-genocide by voting for an anti-genocide/peace candidate such as Jill Stein, Cornel West or Claudia de la Cruz. Screw the Ds and Rs! Tell everyone that you are decidedly against genocide by helping these alternative peace candidates get some publicity by adding to their vote totals. Put a smile on their faces--and yours--and let the powers-that-be that you're on to their puppet string pulling in the White House.
Not Voting when done by many can remove much of the validation of that election by making turnout small
No one should dismiss this
The oligarchs are depending on a low turn-out. It's been a low turn-out for decades now. You're not making any statement that way. It it worked, it would have worked by now. Better to show up and vote your conscience and let them know how you feel.
a high turnout only helps validate the election
The press always makes note of a low turnout
A low turn-out just shows the oligarchy that they "win", that we've given up, rolled over, decided not to fight back. They are free to do to us as they will, which won't be pretty and might make this current genocide look like a walk in the park. I don't know about you, but I'm no coward. I'm fighting back until my dying breath. I'm letting them know that I don't agree with them.
lol
I don't need to show the oligarchy anything they do not already know
It is the citizens who can't see through this fraud of "get our and vote"
Actually it doesn’t.