• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    I don’t really understand. Suppose democracy as we know it is dismantled and we have an autocratic supreme leader eternal… will it be helpful to “explain to people that those in power do not have popular support”

    voting for lesser of two evils and voting for absolute support is also indistinguishable.

    This is also a flawed premise, as though casting a vote is supposed to be an expression of your self and your personal desires on path to utopia… it’s not. You’re voting for which asshole you want to be POTUS. That’s it. There is no lesser of two evils or tepid support or partial agreement. Do you want Chocolate, or do you want Strawberry.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, it would be helpful. People are less likely to rebel if they think majority supports the government.

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          7 months ago

          I don’t think you shouldn’t vote, I just think there is no much use in it because there are both pros and cons that are more or less the same. If everybody voted for lesser of two evils everything would be the same as is now, if nobody voted it would be clear that we have no democracy at least. Either way, our effort should be placed in supporting party candidates, but in building our own communites and self-governing ourselves directly.