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Do you honestly believe politicians don’t know what we want if we don’t vote? Sure, they can gauge how much they can truly get away with, but we have the internet and polling and email and phone calls and protests and petitions and every manner of just as ineffective tools as voting that tells people in power what regular people think, which is generally ignored for the wishes of the mega donors.
Like I said earlier, I voted, but hyper fixating on it only distracts from the knowledge that there’s far better things to do than talk about voting other than the single day every couple of years where you go to the polls.
Voting is at it's base a means of information transfer, but it's also a way to transfer power.
Legislators presidents are not all powerful, but there can be real consequences to who gets to make the rules.
We do not disagree about what is most important. But voting is a gateway to civic involvement. I don't think people who don't vote are more likely to organize labor, volunteer, or engage in activism. I think it's the opposite. Voters are more likely to be engaged and engaged active people are more likely to be voters.