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I shouldn't have to choose between evil and slightly less evil. My vote is already useless in the state I live in because it's been gerrymandered into dysfunction so it's hard to even find a reason to bother
What should be and what is are not the same thing, and if you spend all day crying about how it shouldn't be like this, you'll never change how it is.
It is not possible to change the system through voting. Not to the extent it needs to be changed
And who cares how much worse you make it because you wont even try to make it better? The system sucks, so lets burn it down! I can't wait until we get the handmaiden's tale because the system isn't changeable enough.
You think I am not trying to make it better? I do and I am, just not through voting. The most direct way you can affect the world around you is through volunteer work and organization. Voting is the least efficient way to change people's lives
It's also how you make sure you get the dog not the wolf in the short term. A lot of your other action is going to get a lot harder if Trump takes the whitehouse and never leaves.
That's good to hear, but please, do not pretend that ignoring the presidency wouldn't set back the good you're working towards at the local level.
You're only correct in the positive direction. The relationship is inverted for negativity, and not voting is the most efficient way of making lives materially worse, given the shitheads that end up in office when you let those with an authoritarian bent control who holds national office.
Gerrymandering does not affect Senate and Presidential elections.
I am aware of this and probably shouldn't have mentioned it considering the topic is primarily the presidential election. The electoral college is more of a factor in this case. Regardless I live in the most red state possible
Gerrymandered districts elect state governments, and state governments get to make their own election laws.
At the very least, your vote lends credence to gerrymandering or electoral college reform, if it is part of popular vote showing different results from actual vote