the simplest form of it is in the case where there are only 2 candidates on the ballot and they are both unacceptable choices. the so-called "choosing the lesser of two evils" dilemma. well, voting for a lesser evil is still voting for evil.
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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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I’m all for providing negative feedback to flawed candidate whom I have reluctantly supported, but I haven’t seen any evidence that not voting is an effective form of negative feedback.
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