Gonna rig the election by not voting for Trump 10.000.000 times, thus, somehow, giving Biden 10.000.000 votes. Any advice on which states would be best not to vote for a candidate?
Gonna rig the election by not voting for Trump 10.000.000 times, thus, somehow, giving Biden 10.000.000 votes. Any advice on which states would be best not to vote for a candidate?
You’re right, the frustration people feel doesn’t resolve from ticking a box. The issue is that belief in ticking the box represents a hope of their frustration changing. It represents the possibility of change happening.
This is how it functions as a steam valve for the machine to let off frustration-energy.
It is at the precise moment that people reject electoralism that they become genuinely revolutionary, because it is at that moment that they have genuinely given up on the structures presented by the existing system as a means for change. Once you give up on that you truly seek revolution, because you genuinely accept that there is no other path to change.
The question here is whether you’ve crossed the line to radicalise yet, like so many of us have. Or whether you think screaming
at people in the Most Important Election of Our Lives:tm: (Again) will this time achieve anything after the “most progressive president in history” or whatever bullshit they were pushing.
This is a question as old as socialism. Rosa Luxemburg’s book, Reform or Revolution, is very much worth your time.
I’ve been teetering on that edge for a while now. I can’t give you a simple answer, because I’m a coward and an optimist that doesn’t like severe sudden changes. I want things to get better, but I’m afraid of the anxiety a revolution would cause me.
On the other hand, there’s a part of me that argues the anxiety would be worth the price and my reluctance is selfish. It waxes and wanes with my mood and energy. Particularly in the grinding mill of wage slavery, those swings have become more erratic and extreme.
Yeah no, Most Important is a load of bull, and most progressive president (of the US) is probably neither true nor a particularly significant achievement for a nation whose history started with genocide, went on with slavery, half-hearted abolition motivated by politics rather than morals, never actually fixing anything but elections (domestic and foreign) and secured peace at the price of getting to freely infiltrate their military all over Europe and leverage the treaties to support - you guessed it - more genocide.
I’m no friend of the US politics and established. I’m just deep in denial and dismantling that delusion in a mind as rigid as mine is taking a long time.
I want to believe in peaceful means. I want to believe that the election can at least help slow the descent long enough for local movements to gather support, expand into regional, national and global initiatives to build a better world.
Rationally, you are right. Emotionally, I am still slave to my irrationality.
I don’t see it as irrational. We are all trying to escape Plato’s cave, everything until that escape seems completely rational.