Despite research having shown that our vote has virtually no effect on outcomes, many still want to believe.
POV: “Vote blue no matter who” crowd when their “Blue” candidate votes for war.
As much as I hate Dilbert’s creator, he got something right with the joke where you always have to give your boss 2 choices - one that you already chose beforehand, and another that’s only there for the boss to reject so they think they contributed.
Also known as the Queen’s Duck!
they want to have their cake and eat it too
More like they want to have their cake and sell it too
And yet their vote means nothing.
Yeah, the majority of voters are.
It is a flawed Democracy. Lobbying money corrupts the government.
Binary system is not democracy.
In a world where rich and powerful steer the governance, it’s a slide down to the worst outcome.
One side is bad, the other is less bad. But people aren’t doing anything to remove the bad because they think they’ll choose less bad next time. But the next time, bad side has become worse, the less bad is less worse because why would they try, when they can guilt trip you?
Rinse and repeat.
And in a country where
corruptionlobbying is legal, you never had any say in the first place.
