My least favorite thing about election culture in the US is when individual people say things like "Make sure to vote!" and don't actually say how they think you should vote. It means one of a few things:
1) they think it's rude to discuss specific policy or candidates
2) they think their position is the "true" majority and if everyone voted it would all be ok
3) they actually don't care how you vote
1 & 3 are morally awful, 2 just seems like hubris
@darius This is a great point but I think there are legions of pessimistic people whose hopelessness leads them to apathy (myself included). I think people who honestly care are more often the ones that become exhausted by the brutality of america. So yes I think those people are the people that need to be poked.
Also fascists don't want everyone to vote, so telling everyone to vote is a statement against that. I agree it isn't strong enough of a statement tho
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