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Am tired of it. Will do it again. I have colleagues in Ukraine. I know what is at stake and that both sides may be bad, but they are certainly not the same.
See it that way: if you were in an armed rebellion against a fascist state, hiding from trench to forest dwelling, would you pass on an occasion to spend one hour of your time to reduce a bit the political power of the enemy?
Voting is not enough, but it has an effect. Voting should not be your only political action, but I don't think it should be dismissed.
What effect? Literally none of my actions have prevented fascists from coming into power. I did face-to-face conversations in why Duterte was bad. I campaigned against Marcos. Literally zero effect. The bad people win because the game is stacked in their favor.
You lowered their score. Not enough people did what you did. One person is unlikely to sway an election by themselves, it is a collaborative effort.
Saying that voting is useless because your candidate did not win is missing the whole point of elections.
No, voting is not useless because my candidate lost. Voting is useless because it separates people from mass politics and makes it appear as if the ballot is the power. Instead of people acting for themselves, they delegate their power to a ballot and to a candidate. That is not power, that is an image of power.
I am unconvinced that without voting people would feel more included in "mass politics"
That's because the mass politics you envision is precisely one predetermined by the liberal-“democratic” voting form, where people are precisely separated from their power. Voting can be part of a truly liberatory and emancipatory politics, but its current form is authoritarian. Even the concept of voting as harm reduction and voting for lesser evils already shows people have no power.
Yes, it is authoritarian and allows one to choose between two authoritarian alternatives that are not the same. Voting matters but can't be the only political action you have.