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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It bothers me that you're being heavily downvoted for saying that direct action is more effective/important than voting, so I'm chiming in to say I agree with you.

This isn't an 'enlightened centrist' position here, just a realistic one. I will continue to vote Democrat and encourage others to do the same, but I don't have any illusions that doing so is anything more than damage control.

Our political system in the US is corrupt, not just the people within it. Changing it will require external support.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

direct action is more effective/important than voting

The important, crucially important part here that there is no either/or scenario. Voting is action, and if you do everything else but not vote, that everything else gets kinda pointless. At least for now, in couple of voting cycles GOP will complete their plan to destroy the democracy, and then the voters apathy will be self-fulfilling prophecy. But for now it's not there yet.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, changing it will just require a guillotine and a lot of angry people.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

No, it won't really, because all you would be doing is removing the corrupt people from power without changing or replacing the corrupt system in which they operated.

Systemic change happens on 2 fronts, both internal and external.