> if more people thought like you we would have lost democracy long ago
The United States has always been a plutocracy, and the plutocrats who wrote the Constitution were explicitly suspicious of direct democracy, intentionally adding a number of measures to obstruct it. The most recent election was largely a contest between competing factions of billionaires, and guess what, a billionaire won.
It's actually so-called "strategic" voting, choosing the lesser of two evils, that perpetuates the evils of our plutocracy.
I just said, immediately before your reply, "I didn't say there was no reason to vote", and this is your response? Nice reading comprehension.
> it is doing one's civic duty
That's exactly what I was referring to in my original post: "Voting tends to be more of a symbolic or ethical act than an rational act".
> Your attitude is poison
> extremely small-minded
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> if more people thought like you we would have lost democracy long ago
The United States has always been a plutocracy, and the plutocrats who wrote the Constitution were explicitly suspicious of direct democracy, intentionally adding a number of measures to obstruct it. The most recent election was largely a contest between competing factions of billionaires, and guess what, a billionaire won.
It's actually so-called "strategic" voting, choosing the lesser of two evils, that perpetuates the evils of our plutocracy.