Voting defensively is how we got here. Too many view voting as all they can do and any talk about doing more is viewed as too radical and annoying. If someone votes third party, but works to organize then I’d say they’re doing more than the vast amount of Americans.
People who voted for Biden in 2020 didn’t show up to vote in 2024. People not showing up to vote is how we got here. People not showing up to vote for Clinton in 2016 is how we got the SCOTUS far-right supermajority that can veto anything it wants, including the 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
And yes, if you’re organizing for the next noncooperation effort or the next general strike or coordinating obstruction of ICE abductions or working for your local mutual aid org, then yes, you’re doing something more, possibly more important than voting.
But it’s going to be a while before those organized efforts have enough power to make demands, and by then we’re likely to be in civil war. We’re already seeing state violence and concentration camps.
In FPTP, voting for a third party – even when it’s some major figure like Ross Perot or Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt – is doing the same as abstaining.
By voting defensively we can control the damage. But we’re obligated to do more than just vote.
Voting defensively is how we got here. Too many view voting as all they can do and any talk about doing more is viewed as too radical and annoying. If someone votes third party, but works to organize then I’d say they’re doing more than the vast amount of Americans.
People who voted for Biden in 2020 didn’t show up to vote in 2024. People not showing up to vote is how we got here. People not showing up to vote for Clinton in 2016 is how we got the SCOTUS far-right supermajority that can veto anything it wants, including the 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
And yes, if you’re organizing for the next noncooperation effort or the next general strike or coordinating obstruction of ICE abductions or working for your local mutual aid org, then yes, you’re doing something more, possibly more important than voting.
But it’s going to be a while before those organized efforts have enough power to make demands, and by then we’re likely to be in civil war. We’re already seeing state violence and concentration camps.