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If it makes you feel any better, voting doesn't help either.
It's fairly well understood at this point that US policymaking has nothing to do with the will of the people.
I feel like I need to step in and personally rebuke this shit. Voting absolutely does work. Showing up to vote once isn't going to magically fix everything - it's going to take many election cycles to reverse course. US policy doesn't reflect the will of the people because we've been apathetic for so long. Saying "voting doesn't help" implies there's no point in voting, and not voting guarantees that we will lose our democracy. I'm sympathetic to those who have been hurt by the conservative and capitalist agenda in this country who are losing hope, but making claims like this essentially makes you an ally to the corpofascist machine.
Please vote.
Sure man.
If you were paying attention, you'd notice that manipulating the government has been a fine craft for the ruling class.
As in, they've carefully calculated how much they need to spend in order to influence public opinion. It isn't much. They have way, way more to spend.
What we've seen is only the bare minimum they're willing to put out to maintain control. It really is that simple.
I'll gladly vote for the iron boot grinding me into the dirt that still allows me to breathe instead of the one that is going to drown my face in the mud. If I have a choice, I'll take the best available option.
Yeah, we keep getting punished because we can't work together against the common enemy.
We'd rather step on each other than build ourselves up.