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TomCADem

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25. VOTE! Voting is not doing nothing.

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #22)

Mon Oct 12, 2020, 02:18 PM

Oct 2020

The idea that voting is doing nothing is a right wing talking point. It makes no sense whatsoever for folks not to vote, then rush out and protest because they do not like the results of an election, which is the whole point of the article.

I cannot disagree more strongly with the idea that voting is the same as doing nothing. Likewise, as I have stated in this thread, we have to not just win the Presidency, but races up and down the ballot. Once again, you cannot just try to win the Presidency, then call it a day. That is not doing nothing. Doing nothing is not voting.

Voltaire2 wrote:
You appear to be building your justifications for doing nothing.

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