They can’t get time off work on voting day, or would be fired or get into serious financial precarity if they did,
They got purged from voter rolls and don’t find this out untill they show up at the polls,
They do not have stable housing, perhaps literally no permanent address (homeless), perhaps they have to keep moving regularly and can’t keep their current address correct in every single account or system that requires that,
They have no reliable method of transportation to voting places,
They don’t have a drivers liscense because they don’t own or drive a car,
They have medical conditions / disabilities that prevent them from being able to get to voting places,
They do not have or cannot reliably use some kind of mail in voting system, often for some combination of some of the above reasons.
Leftists, actual leftists, not liberals who think they are leftists, tend to be broke, broken, and literally disenfranchised.
Yeah, a good number of them also just don’t vote because they know the districts they are in are gerrymandered to hell, or they are ideologically opposed to it, or something like that.
But, a whole lot would like their voices to be heard… only to find that no one is willing to give them an opportunity to speak.
That opportunity to electorally speak requires and assumes a basic societal baseline that everyone is at, yet society does not actually guarantee this baseline… so, the many people who fall through the cracks, they are unpeople, they don’t count, they are definitionally disenfranchised.
(As you can see, all of what I have outlined often forms at least part of an ideological basis for why electoralism is bullshit.)
(Personally, while I do think electoralism is indeed bullshit in many ways, I still very much think that all who can vote should vote, because I know that if we don’t try, the system will just pretend more and more of us do not even exist, more and more privileged people will hear the media report bullshit numbers telling them that we do not exist… and things will get worse, faster.)
A lot of leftists don’t vote because:
They can’t get time off work on voting day, or would be fired or get into serious financial precarity if they did,
They got purged from voter rolls and don’t find this out untill they show up at the polls,
They do not have stable housing, perhaps literally no permanent address (homeless), perhaps they have to keep moving regularly and can’t keep their current address correct in every single account or system that requires that,
They have no reliable method of transportation to voting places,
They don’t have a drivers liscense because they don’t own or drive a car,
They have medical conditions / disabilities that prevent them from being able to get to voting places,
They do not have or cannot reliably use some kind of mail in voting system, often for some combination of some of the above reasons.
Leftists, actual leftists, not liberals who think they are leftists, tend to be broke, broken, and literally disenfranchised.
Yeah, a good number of them also just don’t vote because they know the districts they are in are gerrymandered to hell, or they are ideologically opposed to it, or something like that.
But, a whole lot would like their voices to be heard… only to find that no one is willing to give them an opportunity to speak.
That opportunity to electorally speak requires and assumes a basic societal baseline that everyone is at, yet society does not actually guarantee this baseline… so, the many people who fall through the cracks, they are unpeople, they don’t count, they are definitionally disenfranchised.
(As you can see, all of what I have outlined often forms at least part of an ideological basis for why electoralism is bullshit.)
(Personally, while I do think electoralism is indeed bullshit in many ways, I still very much think that all who can vote should vote, because I know that if we don’t try, the system will just pretend more and more of us do not even exist, more and more privileged people will hear the media report bullshit numbers telling them that we do not exist… and things will get worse, faster.)