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Just like voting for somebody else will be the next winning move.
What does it mean to not play and how is that winning?
We have centuries of examples of participation working. It’s obvious that you can win by playing.
Not whole lot of room for that when you're foaming at the mouth, ready to repeat packaged PR narratives made by very well paid DC people.
The USA isn’t and hasn’t been a republic in quite a long time. The USA is financialist semi-fascist oligarchy, and operates as such regardless of who’s voted into power.
John Sirota has spent quite a bit of effort on journalism on this subject.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
The USA isn’t capitalist, it’s financialist. The dollar is a financial product created via debt issuance.
The USA is semi-fascist as most people in prison aren’t given a trial, there’s a prison industrial complex, police are typically immune from prosecution, and there’s a massive surveillance apparatus that violates US law and human rights. This is wrapped in “patriotism” which is in keeping with fascist modes of propaganda, and the US corporate/state merger is a clear instance of the fascist model.
The US is an oligarchy, and not a republic. No matter who is elected the wars continue, the drug war continues, poverty increases, mass incarceration continues, and so on.
A republic is the “thing of the people”. The people of the USA have very little power over federal policy. The observed function is that a handful of wealthy oligarchs get what they want pretty much every time.