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Let me clarify: They do work in solidifying power structures. However, that's usually not in favour of the vast majority of people.
So when the wrong people win, elections work. But stopping the wrong people from winning totally doesn't work.
Got it. Thanks for breaking it down for me.
Yeah. Elections are tools for the powerful. True democratic power comes from organizing.
If you can't bring the Dems to stop condoning a genocide, but you have to vote for them nontheless, because orange man bad: what use is this democracy?
Post your organizing: [email protected]
Invite me to a Gaza protest and if I'm in the area you'll see me there.
You're obviously doing some organizing, since you feel it's important enough that voting even to choose between two so dramatically different candidates would be, by comparison, not worth it.
Right?
I'm not located in the US, though.