The amount of people who like say something like “this is a matter of LIFE AND DEATH… go vote!!!” Completely sincerely and w no inner critical awareness is just like too much for me
Like, I just can not get my head to properly recreate the mindset of someone who thinks that it is at the point where it has become a struggle between life and death, liberty and totalitarianism, things-being-fine and actual genocide, and to then reach the conclusion that the call to action is to go somewhere and vote a few months from now, and that anything beyond that is too much, too extreme. And tbh that’s probably for the best
Like, theoretically I can imagine that when politicians want to do a thing that will kill people (happens a lot), someone could believe that voting could stop it.
But like, if a person says that and admits they KNOW it is a matter of life and death, and then the vote LOSES, then step two should be real resistance, right? We’re not gonna just let the government kill people, are we?
But the kind of person who says this inevitable responds to a loss with “we need to try harder in 4 years” and I’m like ????? You already admit that you know people will die???
There have been some responses to this post listing the dangers and fear of the consequences of resisting. If that’s you, at least be honest about that in conversations about voting.
Like, seriously, if people campaigned for voting by saying
“Look, we know the government is going to kill people in the next 4 years but the government is absolutely terrifying and we’d rather risk those people’s lives than our own lives so instead of resisting we’re going to focus on voting and hope we have convinced enough survivors in 4 years to vote them out.”
At least that way we could have an honest conversation based on acknowledging the reality of state violence. We wouldn’t be any closer together on our opinions about how democracy works, but we’d be closer to agreeing on the fear that maintains it.
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