Attention nonparticipants

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This is for all you Green-voting, non-voting, "anarchist" types who don't vote because "they're all the same".

Wake the fuck up.

They're not all the same. The people who won yesterday want to take away reproductive rights, roll back civil rights, dump a huge tax burden on working people, strengthen entrenched monopolies, chop down every tree in North America, and send us to war for little reason.

I see the arguments that "I can't give my vote to the opposition because they're slimy and annoying" and I have to laugh. Folks, politics is not about whether you feel beautiful and pure and ideologically correct leaving the booth. Politics is practical. It's about what you can accomplish with that vote, in the real world where we all live. It's not about reading 'zines and drinking wheatgrass juice and being part of a totally ignored nouveau hippie subculture. This stuff has real-world consequences, and not just for you and your painfully correct friends.

So I hope you get what you wanted, anyway. Maybe at the next party you can put on your hemp cap and sweet talk some girl into bed with your tales of how you stood up to the Man and didn't cave in and vote for some compromise candidate because you're keepin' it real. Or maybe you just got to stop off for a latte on your way to work instead of punching a hole in some cardboard.

In any case the rest of us are going to be spending the next two years watching George II and his cronies take away our country. Thanks for nothing.

Comments

[rhiannonstone.livejournal.com]

If everyone actually voted their feelings and didn't just feel like they had to choose between the lesser of 2 evils, third-party candidates would have a significantly better chance of winning. But because we've been conditioned for years and years that voting third-party is throwing our vote away, thousands upon thousands of people who'd rather vote Lib or Green don't, and the Libs and Greens don't get many votes, and people think that it's futile to try to elect anyone but a Rep or a Dem (not that there's much difference between the two anymore), and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I realize that this probably won't change your mind, just as your rant won't ever change mine, but those are the facts as I see them, logical and true.