Comment by vjulian
1 day ago
Many of us find voting insulting, given very low marginal power in a vote; it’s akin to throwing breadcrumbs to the poor. The structure of governance (the reality, not the mythology taught in schools or pushed forth as propaganda) is not in support of ‘the people”.
Right or wrong, this is how many of feel. Voting is silly and futile.
Ironically, the way to change this is by voting. One election at a time, we can trend towards the better or worse.
We have to remove the power the current political duopoly has had for generations.
Fuck the Republicans. Fuck the Democrats. Rally behind a third-party candidate and blow up the establishment with your vote
Hell yeah. And disregard anyone who says you’re “wasting your vote” or “splitting the vote”; they’re part of the problem and their defeatist thinking will get us nowhere.
Not voting is much more insulting, by far.
Edit: "civic religion" aha. Sorry, I should have guessed you were trolling. Can't wait to see what kind of revolution you cook up.
Civil religions and in particular an American Civil religion, are a real thing[1]. Not sure if that’s what the guy meant however.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion
Huh. Thank you! I had no idea. Prior to your share, I would have lumped all that stuff into "culture formation".
Civics is a kind of religion, and it is difficult for people caught up in it to approach discussion from a logical and external perspective. This kind of civics is dangerous to society.
Conversely, I think civics where anonymous people tell you voting isn't effective and promote a kind of resentful powerless nihilism is dangerous to society.
Reform is preferable to revolution which is preferable to oppression.