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At this point, stop encouraging people to vote. It doesn't seem to work in the US anymore, if the current state of matters is anything to go by. It's almost like encouraging the Thomas Matthew Crooks and the Luigi Mangione types to deal with the problems right at the root would be a better way to go.

You need to take the money out of politics, and advertising out of, well, everything. If not, things will just continue to get worse and worse.

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Here’s a short list of meaningful causes which have been advanced in my lifetime by groups of single issue voters at the local and state levels:

  * making gay marriage broadly available
  * making concealed carry (and Constitutional carry) broadly available
  * removing barriers to housing construction in cities across the land (the Yimby movement)
  * making the Idaho stop law applicable to 10 states
  * changing the voting method from plurality to approval or IRV in several cities and states

Voting is one of the important ways our government is steered, cynicism in this area is self-defeating. Instead, band with a group of single issue voters who elevate one issue over all others, and vote for whomever aligns with that issue, if their election prospects are threatened, they will support you, as with my favorite quote from a politician: “when I feel the heat, I see the light.”

>At this point, stop encouraging people to vote. It doesn't work in the US anymore.

"Democracy doesn't work if the result doesn't suit me; stop voting against my wishes."?

Sincerely, please fuck off into whatever other country seems more to your liking. Arguments like yours truly make me wonder if democracy is, in fact, merely a more plausibly deniable excuse to obtain and maintain power like in other more directly authoritarian forms of governance.

> Luigi Mangione

Yeah, the Stack Overflow network really doesn't like that guy

If Trump was killed, it could have started a civil war in the US. Be careful what you wish for.

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