not voting isn’t refusing to play the game. You’re in this country, you’re subject to the game whether you like it or not. The only way not to play is to leave, and the vast majority of us don’t have that option.
Not voting is playing the game but saying ‘pass’ every time your turn comes up and then wondering why you lost.
Making young people not vote is actually a tactic used in politics to keep the satus quo. The young vote is always the one for change, so dissuading them from voting at all is actually a political tactic used by the people in charge to keep themselves there.
Voting is rebellion.
when we have already passed the point where the only candidates with a chance to win are the ones who will keep the elites in charge (and yes, I am including Bernie Sanders for reasons) the only rebellion is rebellion
Elections are only partly about which primary color animal mascot gets to fart through egyptian cotton for four years in the white house. State and local elections also continue to exist. a couple dozen votes can be enough to really fuck shit up in your town. “rebellion is rebellion” is a great soundbyte but you haven’t really lived til you’ve helped scrape a traditional values fundie off the ass of your local school board or refused to ban gay marriage in the most populous county of your fairly redneck state. People like to forget that local elections exist and matter but what do you think those big changes are built out of? Certainly not apathetic grumbling about how nothing matters if it’s not big. and is that ‘rebellion’ in the sense of revolution? cause thanks but no thanks, where are sick people supposed to get their medicine if the pharmacy is on fire? call me when the revolution is ADA compliant and maybe we can talk about flipping over some cop cars.
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