ultimately communists aren’t even telling you not to vote, the point is that it is completely ineffective action. when you ask ‘why shouldn’t we vote? we can vote and do other stuff’ it is as if you had been proposing prayer as a solution to fascism and scolding anyone who said otherwise - even if your argument is 'there’s no reason not to try’, it implies an incredible and grave misunderstanding of what is and is not an effective means of political action. like… sure. go ahead and pray, to god or to Democracy, and buy fair-trade while you’re at it, but if we’re being honest, here, I think the defensiveness over it shows not genuine faith, but a desperation to engage with a system that clearly does not work, but whose alternative appears scary and unclear to you.
communists be like “aren’t you glad you didn’t vote (it’s an allegory of prayer to the status quo)” while they shuffle us all into a death camp
if I were being marched into a death camp I would simply Vote my way out. remember when the red army liberated auschwitz with incremental reforms
no but i remember that hitler was put into power because enough people voted for him soooooo
Hitler Literally lost the Presidential election and was later appointed chancellor by Hindenburg
