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Americans who can vote should not complain about representatives unless they vote. (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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Its the primaries over here and its peoples chance to choose who will run on the democratic ticket in the general election. You may not like the two party system or the lack of rank choice voting but this is peoples chance to determine who might take governement positions. I hope no one who throws out the democrats don't do enough are voting in the primaries because otherwise they are the reason what we get with democrats is what it is. Primaries because its just one party pretty much doubles the value of ones vote and further since they get less turnout it at least doubles it again. So the vote effect is in excess of 3x at a minimum. Citizenship in the us has two repsonsibilities. Voting and jury duty. Both are important to democracy.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not voting is cowardice and a sign of white privilege. Some of us had to have our forefathers fight for the right to vote; through lynching, poll tax, dred Scott, and so on.

So some of us can't afford to not vote for survival.

Glad you can be comfortable in your "political act."

[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

uh lol i vote. it's literally one of the first things i said. i was explaining the rationale behind some non-voters.