Why is it necessary? Wouldn’t direct action be sufficient for change?
You forgot the next sentence:
The problem is that so many people think of voting as their primary way of exerting political and social power that a disproportionate amount of everyone’s time and energy is spent deliberating and debating about it while other opportunities to make change go to waste. For months and months preceding every election, everyone argues about the voting issue, what candidates to vote for or whether to vote at all, when voting itself takes less than an hour. Vote or don’t, but get on with it! Remember how many other ways you can make your voice heard.
Idk man, theres not too much debate on who to vote for. There’s a clear lesser evil and theres an avowed fascist. The quoted paragraph just reaffirms what his one sentence says, that voting isn’t sufficient.
I like the pamphet. I think it hits most everything important. If you only vote and the entirety of your efforts are spent on electoralism and not direct action, its a lot if wasted time. But if you cant even take 20 mins to vote every 2 years, or worse you’re advocating people who aren’t fascist sit it out, you need to rethink what you’re doing.
Voting is not sufficient, but it is necessary
It’s the least effective and simultaneously most vital civil action.
Why?
It’s like you didn’t even look at your own pamphlet. It backs up his exact statement.
Why is it necessary? Wouldn’t direct action be sufficient for change?
You forgot the next sentence:
Idk man, theres not too much debate on who to vote for. There’s a clear lesser evil and theres an avowed fascist. The quoted paragraph just reaffirms what his one sentence says, that voting isn’t sufficient.
I like the pamphet. I think it hits most everything important. If you only vote and the entirety of your efforts are spent on electoralism and not direct action, its a lot if wasted time. But if you cant even take 20 mins to vote every 2 years, or worse you’re advocating people who aren’t fascist sit it out, you need to rethink what you’re doing.
The goal is to let people know that voting isn’t enough.
Voting isn’t enough, but it is the bare minimum.
Eventually, the bare minimum won’t be enough.
Voting isn’t enough, but it is the bare minimum.
Eventually, the bare minimum won’t be enough.
Voting isnt enough, but it is the bare minimum.
Eventually, the bare minimum won’t be enough.
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Great comment.
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Some think that voting is enough. I don’t think it matters without organizing and direct action.