sean, with words@HarbingerOfSalem @AlisonW centrists are the true evil 💯
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@seanwithwords @HarbingerOfSalem
Could we add those who say there is no point in voting? That's what led to this disaster ...
Heather Newby@AlisonW @seanwithwords @HarbingerOfSalem
Exactly. 28% didn’t vote in the Brexit referendum and there’s a good chance most of them thought staying in was a done deal and there was”no point” in voting. Who knows where we’d be today if we’d had a bigger turnout? I probably wouldn’t be a Swedish citizen now
Exactly. 28% didn’t vote in the Brexit referendum and there’s a good chance most of them thought staying in was a done deal and there was”no point” in voting. Who knows where we’d be today if we’d had a bigger turnout? I probably wouldn’t be a Swedish citizen now
@HedgeNewby @seanwithwords @HarbingerOfSalem
As with the polls here currently the media made such a thing of the result being a foregone conclusion that enough (aka too many) saw no point in going to vote and so changed the result. Even Farago thought he'd lost.
As with the polls here currently the media made such a thing of the result being a foregone conclusion that enough (aka too many) saw no point in going to vote and so changed the result. Even Farago thought he'd lost.
@HedgeNewby @HarbingerOfSalem @AlisonW I hear that (and referendum votes ARE unique, I think) but, along with similar arguments I hear in the US, it smacks of victim blaming.
Citizens in these so-called free democracies are subjected daily to oppression delivered by objectively corrupt humans, and then expected to join the party thrown by those humans when it’s time for pandering rallies and promises that are broken before they’re made…
@HedgeNewby @HarbingerOfSalem @AlisonW I’d rather focus criticism on the system and insist that it needs to be fixed. Placing criticism/stress on the citizens/voters bc of how they respond to a terribly violent and corrupt system means that the citizens will have to change (vote, or argue, or be othered, etc) rather than placing stress on the system that NEEDS to break and change
@AlisonW @HarbingerOfSalem i’d rather not.
It is a reasonable conclusion in an unhinged society to detach from the machinations of the society. I don’t see non voters as evil. Certainly, one can not vote for evil reasons, but the act of not voting in itself as, say, a message to the corruption, is only a problem to the extent that so many other people are willing to participate in the corruption