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by shaki-dora
2772 days ago
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That just makes you part of the problem. It's really hard to deny that there are difference. Over time: see J Edgar Hoover, or Nixon. Or 70 years without a World War (and generally with drastically fewer wars than before). And geographically: Canada is better than the US is better than Portugal is better than Greece is better than Iran is better than Sudan is better than North Korea... Unless you literally believe the vote in your country has as little power as one in North Korea (i.e. zero), there is no moral justification for just cynically throwing up your arms and declaring everyone corrupt/it's all just the globalists/Bilderberg/elite/whatever. Because if enough people do that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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Regarding voting, I completely understand that my stance is not helping the situation at all and is untenable if too many people adopt it, but I truly believe that the perceived value of a vote is so out of whack with its actual value, that I (selfishly, I admit) decide to give it up entirely. Sure, some places are better than others, but I think in all countries that I'm aware of, it's still too bad for me to care about participating.
Reading political biographies will show you the gulf that exists between how politics actually works, and how the general public perceive it and use as their metric for choosing candidates.