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What is it you want to stop and why should we stop it ?
My vote meant something . I didn't vote for a Democrat two elections ago, and a Democrat didn't win . There are rules the game is played by, and sometimes, playing by the rules means that someone wins on a technicality . In baseball, if you forget to tag home plate after hitting a home run, it doesn't count . In hockey, if you venture into the crease before the puck, any goal you might have scored doesn't count . In racing, if you beat everyone to the finish line, but don't cross it before them, you don't win the race . In U.S. presidential elections, if you don't garner a majority of electoral votes you don't become president . Should we toss out the rules of baseball, hockey, racing, and every other competition and declare a winner based on an arbitrary condition, like who got more popular votes, or which team we like more, or who deserved to win more, or who is older and wiser, etc. ? Imagine if we declared a winner of the Superbowl based on which team has the most fans .
If you want the system changed, you have to work to change it . You have to propose an alternative, a course of action to get from what we have to the alternative, and you have to convince people that the alternative is better than the current system . The way you do that is by either being a government official or by communicating with and empowering government officials to do that on your behalf (or you take up arms and use force against the system, which is a bad idea). The way you empower government officials is by voting for them .
You can sit there and be self-righteous; you may be righteous . If you don't advocate and vote for an idea or person, though, nothing will ever change . I'm reminded of a quote . I'll paraphrase it : "You are not guaranteed success just by working hard, but you are guaranteed failure by not working at all ." .~~~~~~~~~~
A nihilist would rather light an 11 megaton candle than curse the darkness but . . . a nihilist would rather get drunk and eat cake and have sex than light an 11 megaton candle.
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