I would love to hear an argument against voting, I can’t think of a single good reason.
all of this is stuff that happens outside of the polling booth. I never said you shouldn't do those things. I said you shouldn't vote for bad candidates.
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and yes, it will possibly get better if you don't vote. not voting is the defection case here (as opposed to voting for the greater evil, which was never on the table). parties need to receive clear messages that they have gone awry.
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if you commit to voting for a party no matter what, no matter how bad their candidates are, they have not received the necessary negative feedback. this is how the downward spiral to hyper-polarization and broken politics happened in the first place.
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if the only thing a party needs to get your vote is "we're not as bad as the other team" then they will never ever improve. in fact, they will worsen. calibrate their badness to as much as they can get away with. this has actually happened in America.
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