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  • Bnova [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I really like your point about voting not resulting in policy, I’d completely forgotten about that study and will be using it. But I’d like to clarify something:

    a single vote is not going to make a difference

    it’s true that leftists are too small in number to sway an election

    It doesn’t matter if you’re liberal or conservative or a leftist any single vote doesn’t matter because single votes do not typically determine elections. Like you can be a liberal in a conservative area you’ll be out voted or a liberal in a liberal area will likely have their candidate win by a significant margin meaning their vote didn’t really matter either.

    • iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      again, you’ll just get “What if everyone thought that way.”

      but I agree it’s worth pointing out that a lot of ballots are basically thrown in the trash, if you don’t live in a swing area in this gerrymandered hell country.