Let’s left side of the curve this: would you rather at least try to make things better? Or just go full nihilist and do nothing because it might not work? I’d rather put in the literally 10 minutes it takes to vote and at least try. It’s free for god sake. It’s not like you have to travel to the moon and spend a ton of money. There’s no downside. Even just write in “F you” and force them tabulate that.

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I am not against trying, but this approach has failed up until now, largely because most of the people who run the system have been bought and paid for, so they are only serving their own interests rather than those of the people.

How fair are the elections? As an outsider looking in, there does appear to have been at least some fuckery on that front, so it seems like participating in their game is a losing battle unless there is a forced restructuring of the system itself.

Cypherpunks interested in cryptocurrency or some form of digital cash waged a largely losing battle for decades until Bitcoin. Things often don’t work until they do because some naive idiot(s) wouldn’t stop trying.