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by BillyTheMage 1068 days ago
Voting will accomplish nothing.

The US doesn't even allow people to truly vote. It's mathematically impossible with our several layers of crap bolted onto an already mathematically-broken voting system. It's rigged to give you a choice between 2 evils, and really it's just a choice between 2 different representatives of the exact same evil.

And even if we:

- replace First-Past-The-Post with a proportional voting method

- replace single-seat districts with larger multi-seat districts

- get rid of the electoral college

- secure the rights of referendum and representative-recall

, it's unlikely that they would actually do anything meaningful enough to make a difference. More likely they would pass the same old useless hyper-specific miss-the-point regulations they always do. The only thing that will change is their advertisement methods.

Real change requires direct action.