Who else has voted every year for the last ~8 years? šš¼āāļø Local, state, nationalā¦ Itās just a habit for me now - big or small, Iām making my voice heard!
I have voted twice a year, ever year, for the entire time Iāve been old enough. That said, I really canāt remember the last time I actually expected any meaningful change from itā¦ Electoralism is a bandaid at best, and a distraction at worst. At least in the U.S., maybe itās different elsewhere.
there will be meaningful change if Trump wins the election
True.
I can also guarantee that voting wonāt be enough to prevent that. Hillary won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes in 2016, and still lost the election. When the DNC is determined to lose an election through strategic incompetence, theyāll do it regardless of what we do at the ballot box.
Voting isnāt entirely pointless, and we should do it if we are able, but it isnāt the silver bullet that liberals always pretend it is when theyāre haranguing leftists online.
Voting is the ground troops. It can take and hold through steady progress, and without it, any gains will be 100% illusory in the long run.
Direct action is the air support. It can overcome obstacles which no amount of ground troops will do anything to win over; without it, the troops will just die pointlessly no matter their numbers.