I don’t think any swing states have meaningfully secured their voting since 2020, other than Florida. The regime that rigged it is still in power and has little incentive to change how things operate. By failing to recognize that, we're letting these creeps — political organizations, brainwashed peasants, media, the text spammers — trick us into playing a fake tug of war.
I think after 2020 it’s better personally to have an attitude of non-participation. And actually, it would be better for our country if a whole lot of people held this attitude. It’s not quite accelerationist, but maybe something similar.
You might be right about the security of the elections although I do disagree somewhat on that point. Still the dangers of a Harris Administration is something we should all work to prevent.
If you can’t prevent it by voting, then it’s harmful to promote voting as a preventative measure. It causes people to put their resources (namely time and emotional energy) toward the wrong things.
Moreover, believing in a rigged voting system tricks you to attributing the wrong causes to what happens.
If Kamala wins, you will think we needed to ‘vooote harder’ as they say, when in fact there’s nothing we could have done. If Trump wins, we will think we achieved something, even though the rigging systems of the left may have been thrown to secure a more adamantly pro-Israel candidate.
Before getting into the weeds of which candidate would be better for the riggers, ask yourself first: is this system rigged? What did we see in 2020 and has any of that changed?
Absentee ballot measures, an explosion in the number of voters, the waiving of signature requirements and other fraud proofing checks, cardboard over the windows at the counting facilities, fuckery with the poll observers, and all of that isn’t to mention the absurd influx of foreigners. What changed about all of that since 2020? Why wasn’t there an audit?
You may say ‘it doesn’t hurt to try.’ But if you don’t vote today you’ll feel much freer.
There have been a lot changes since 2020. This won't be perfect but they are under a lot more scrutiny and laws are more in our favor.
I will not feel better if Harris wins and I didn't even bother giving Trump my vote.
Does the u.s. have the option to cast a vote of "none of the above"? If so, then doing that is a bit better than not voting at all because it is counted separately from someone who may or may not want anything to do with politics. It'd be the equivalent of a "fuck you" option on polls here on Poal