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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
i have opinions but i don't vote. it seems like a waste of time to me. to be perfectly honest i don't care enough whether the democrats or the republicans win the election.. they are too close in ideology for me to expend any serious amount of effort lobbying for one over the other.
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Same here. There are plenty of legitimate issues to be argued, but to me the most important one, or at least the one that needs to be dealt with before you can realistically go about the rest of them, is that the government is unable to function anymore with the current political climate. The public can't even talk to each other about politics anymore, and all of the moderates are too turned off by the process to even try talking sense into the squeaky wheels. And the politicians are only too happy to take advantage of this, resulting in government paralysis. With the country so evenly divided it's impossible for one side to ever truly beat the other, so every few years one party comes to power, gets to shove through whatever policy they can with whatever underhanded way they can with little to no cooperation from the other side while repealing or undermining the previous policies of their rivals, and then inevitably lose favor to be voted out themselves. And so the process repeats like an ineffective pendulum.
Until this issue is addressed then all of the other battles are temporary victories in a losing war that is being ignored because the populace can't see the forest for the trees. And without their acknowledgement of this any vote cast is pointless at best and at worst as much a part of the problem as any action by a corrupt politician, so what's the point until the narrative changes?