When it comes to the whole Don’t Vote movement, the thing is: I get it. I live in one of the most useless areas in one of the most useless states when it comes to any attempt at bipartisanship. I live in an place so red that calling yourself a liberal is bold and edgy and socially dangerous, and just about everyone who claims that title still means that they stop well ahead of like. Keeping gay marriage legal, even. AND even if that weren’t the case, the Mormon church literally just makes the political decisions for our state anyway.
BUT! If nothing else, voting keeps you actively engaged in the process. It’s a regularly scheduled chance to check in on yourself and decide if you’re going to do something or nothing. To see if you’re aware of what’s going on and if there’s anything more you could be doing. And yeah sure, the whole system is rigged, blah blah blah, we’re all aware. But sitting at home and stewing about how unfair everything is is just another form of complacency. Arguing and complaining on the internet unfortunately has a very minimal impact on the actual physical world. Voting is the ground level of activism, it’s the bare minimum. And if you can honestly say you’re spending your days organizing rallies for the movements you believe in, and plotting against the government in an active way to start that communist revolution you’re always talking about, then maybe you really are beyond the vote. But if not then you should give serious consideration to what you’re actually doing for others as the world turns against them, and in the meantime find your polling place here
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