11-03-2024, 07:13 PM
This post was last modified 11-04-2024, 01:47 AM by UltraBudgie.
Edit Reason: -> larger percentage
For the last several elections, the clear winner has been "A Pox On Both Your Houses" -- not Democrat, nor Republican, and certainly not third party, but simply not voting. Disaffected voters. More that 1/3 of those eligible to vote choose not to.
They're quickly ignored. Polls measure "likely voters", ignoring the plurality who might vote but find it most acceptable not to. They're shuffled out of sight much like the jobless who are removed from unemployment statistics after 18 months.
Many are saying that turnout percentage will be much larger this year because "the stakes are so high". I don't think so. I think that voting has become an emotional pacifier. No matter who wins, plutocracy will continue its agenda, military brinkmanship will continue unabated, economic warfare and profit-driven exploitation will continue as normal. Voting gives the system of pretend democracy an air of legitimacy. All we're really choosing is the tone of how we'll be lied and pandered to. It's a distraction; the real powers who make the world the way it is don't care one bit about the "choices" we're allowed to make, they only care that we naively believe we don't have masters, and that we keep blaming each other instead of them.
But that's just me. Or is it? What do you think? Think people will show up?
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They're quickly ignored. Polls measure "likely voters", ignoring the plurality who might vote but find it most acceptable not to. They're shuffled out of sight much like the jobless who are removed from unemployment statistics after 18 months.
Many are saying that turnout percentage will be much larger this year because "the stakes are so high". I don't think so. I think that voting has become an emotional pacifier. No matter who wins, plutocracy will continue its agenda, military brinkmanship will continue unabated, economic warfare and profit-driven exploitation will continue as normal. Voting gives the system of pretend democracy an air of legitimacy. All we're really choosing is the tone of how we'll be lied and pandered to. It's a distraction; the real powers who make the world the way it is don't care one bit about the "choices" we're allowed to make, they only care that we naively believe we don't have masters, and that we keep blaming each other instead of them.
But that's just me. Or is it? What do you think? Think people will show up?
