Democrats Do Not Care If You Vote For Them And Do Not Care If They Lose by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-09-11 at 01:50:19 )

Democrats Do Not Care If You Vote For Them And Do Not Care If They Lose by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Now that the election is closer and the Democrats have switched out Biden for Harris, I feel like I should reiterate my position that you are not actually punishing the Democrats if you refuse to vote for them in November. I often see people talking about making the Democratic Party pay a price for Gaza and for ignoring calls from progressives to end the genocide, but it does not actually work that way. They do not care.

They do not care if you do not vote for them. They do not care if they lose. Their political careers will be fine either way.

It is entirely okay and legitimate to not vote for Democrats, but do not let that act dupe you into thinking your vote matters. It does not matter how you vote, and it does not matter how you do not vote. The United States power structure is set up to be completely unaffected by voters.

Acting like you could teach the Democrats a lesson by refusing to vote for them only feeds into the illusion that voting matters inside a power structure that has been deemed too important to be left to the hands of the voters.

There is a viral tweet from Glenn Greenwald going around that says "The United States has no functional president and has not had one for months, and it is barely noticeable and barely matters because there is a permanent unelected machine that runs the government."

Greenwald is correct. Nobody with any real power cares all that much who the president is. The president does not even need to have a functioning brain. This whole show is being run by people who do not ultimately care all that much whether Democrats or Republicans are in office, including the party leadership of the Democrats and the Republicans.

You think Democrats have enjoyed playing the face of the evil empire these last few years? You think they have enjoyed having their political rallies interrupted by anti-genocide protesters and having their feel-good progressive image completely discredited in front of everyone?

They would all be having a lot more fun if the terrible things being perpetrated by the Biden administration were being done by Donald Trump instead, so they could go back to playing the good guys.

They are happy to lose, which is why they are acting like they are happy to lose. They are doing absolutely nothing to appeal to progressives or energize their base. They are not articulating any real policies besides more of the same. They are not changing anything about any of the stuff that makes normal people hate Democrats in the year 2024, and if they lose again in November they will continue to not change anything.

United States of Americans do not live in the kind of country where votes matter.

I am sorry, but that is just the way it is.

Vote or do not vote however you want, but do not make the mistake of believing you will be teaching the Democrats any kind of lesson that they will actually learn by doing so.

If real change comes to the United States, it will not be because of how any Americans chose to vote or not vote in any of their fake elections.

There are no solutions to these problems in electoral politics. Other solutions are needed!!

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