Macron appointed a reactionary as prime minister after the left won the election? What’s next, Joe Biden implementing Donald Trump’s border and Covid policies?
Haha just kidding, the purpose of a system is what it does and what the electoral “democracies” do is serve the capital class, regardless of the outcome of elections or the preferences of voters.
There’s some non-zero chance that Harris will win the US presidential election by millions of votes and Trump will become president anyway, and lots of liberals will blame anarchists for not voting rather than a political system that consistently empowers reactionaries regardless of electoral outcomes *because that’s the whole point of these systems.*
@hannu_ikonen
I will absolutely blame both.
Anyone who does not vote is a Trump voter. That may be the point of the whole system, and it may be horrible. But not voting doesn't do *jack squat*
Except make you look super cool to the other edgelords. (while you sit safe in a position of privilege)
Everyone who voted for Clinton in 2016 turned out to be a Trump voter too
@hannu_ikonen
Um no, that's not how it works. The Burnie bros and the other privileged people who didn't vote were trump voters
@hannu_ikonen @HeavenlyPossum @Asbestos wait please enlighten me how people who don’t vote are privileged. Voter turnout increases with education and income. Are the 60% of people making less than 20k who didn’t vote more privileged than the 76% of people making six figures that did vote? It seems to me like voting is the domain of the rich.
@hannu_ikonen @HeavenlyPossum
No the people who *choose* not to vote to make some sort of a point about the system are privileged. Because it's not a matter of personal risk to them.
@Asbestos @HeavenlyPossum @hannu_ikonen so you think that for the majority of eligible voters in poverty elections aren’t a matter of personal risk but for rich people they are? Or that Hispanics are more privileged than whites? This is counting by eligible voters not simply a percentage of the population.
@hannu_ikonen @HeavenlyPossum @Asbestos of the majority of non-voters don’t vote because they don’t want to vote. This is according to actual polls and not speculation:
@Asbestos @HeavenlyPossum @hannu_ikonen How is not voting because you think it doesn’t matter who you vote for different from the main reasons people don’t vote in the poll?
@Asbestos @destroy @hannu_ikonen
If the US enthrones a Republican who lost his election for the third time in my lifetime, don’t blame the trivially small and electorally irrelevant community of anarchists. Blame yourself for not voting harder.
@destroy @hannu_ikonen @HeavenlyPossum
Again, I am talking about people who deliberately don't vote as a statement of some sort. just like what was mentioned in the post I was replying to. I think that seems pretty clear