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I used to just… not vote. Didn’t like the people running but they were all mostly the same in my eyes. “Do I want this rich old white dude or that rich old white dude”
I didn’t even bother.
Then a rich old white dude came around that was actually measurably worse than the other rich old white dudes. So I had to start voting against him.
It sucks. I want to go back to not caring.
Just appreciate that you voted against him.
Eh yeah no fuck that. Can you really not see that you were a big part of the problem?
Nope. I don’t feel that way because I did vote against trump and voted Democrat every time and it didn’t come close to fixing the problem.
So no, I’m not a big part of anything.
I'm torn. I do want you to care, because people like you with your head in the right place not caring may have contributed to politics getting to the place it is.
But I want politics to be boring again, too. So shall we say, when this blows over, back to caring intermittently, like a little, around elevation times?
The whole lesson here if we live to learn it should be that even when politics are boring, they're still important. When all you see are old white dudes, it's the people you elected that put them there - not the presidents themselves, but everyone else on the ballot in your local and state elections that you probably never even thought about, much less made an informed vote for.
If all your ever did was think about your presidential vote - or didn't even bother to do that - then you specifically voted for the status quo, namely, the old white dudes. If you want change during the boring times you need to go and make it with your vote. I get it - I was the same "what's the point?" voter, but I'm not anymore, and I'd hope anyone who lived through this will have grown that much at least.
That was something my parents taught me when I was in kindergarten.
Everything is politics. Where you live, what you eat, what kind of job you have. Everything is political.
Yep same. Unfortunately for them, the other related thing they tried to teach me didn't stick: that abortion is the most important issue always no matter what.
Yeah, I think catching up to and acting upon the political news that either I can influence or that can influence me once a week (with exception of really urgent and important ones, but I'll probably hear about those either way) should be a good balance between inactivity and burnout.
At that point you probably should have been voting third party. They won’t win but if they somehow hit 5% of the vote the party qualifies for federal funding in the subsequent election, to my knowledge. Also, the big parties do look at what votes they are losing out on to third parties to see how they should realign in the future just as much if not more as they look to see how they can engage non voters.
Until we have ranked choice voting third party isn’t going to get above 5 percent.
Agreed, but I still find it preferable to non voting
I agree now