• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Non-voters should be on the front lines.

    After they write an apology letter to all the people that died to give them a democracy and visit their graves to deliver the letters.

    • OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      Hard agree. If you’re not voting at all you’re basically saying “do whatever you want to me government daddy, no matter what you do I support you!”.

      At the very least, you should be registering a protest vote with a third party so that your protest is recorded.

      I don’t agree with this whole idea that Nader gave the election to Bush. Nader said he would have dropped out if Gore had adopted certain things into his platform.

      • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        One of the few things they can do that has any measurable effect on outcomes and they decided, “nah, fuck all that.”