look, y'all. I’m speaking directly to that 2.3% of you.
Boycotting is for when your refusal to participate hurts the system/entity you are absent from. You boycott a company, a transit authority, etc.
That’s not how voting works. There WILL be an election whether you participate or not. The results WILL be counted in the usual way & considered valid whether you participate or not.
so participate.
Go to a protest immediately before and after you cast your vote. If you don’t have an election day protest near you, organize one. Call your elected representatives / the national party HQs every day of every week between now and the election to formally register your opinion on the candidates presented to you. THOSE are effective ways to protest the system. Better yet, get involved in your local municipality, where you can make change as a much bigger fish in a much smaller pond.
Not voting just means the people who believe differently from you will decide who governs, because they showed up.
Yes. So organize around its revamping or elimination. Vote anyway. It’s meaningful that the popular vote has been so misaligned with the electoral college for so long. It’s gonna be hard to reform the system no matter what, but it will be fucking impossible if we don’t continue to show up and demonstrate the ways in which it’s broken.
Voting as harm reduction is much more effective and meaningful than not voting at all.
