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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
You realize that people who think both sides are the same don't actually vote at all?
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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
It definitely isn't "both sides are the same so I might as well vote GOP".
It's "both sides are the same so **** this system".
I'm fine with the idea that some of that is deliberately played up/amplified in public discourse in order to make people apathetic about politics. But when "both sides" are legitimately awful, I'm not sure what the solution is. Probably not re-investing in a bankrupt system.
Doubtless many do abstain. However, the "disengaged low information" voters that voted for Trump to "drain the swamp" in Washington are those I am talking about. Their reasoning was basically 'Washington is full of corrupt politicians on both sides so we should send in an outsider to shake things up.' Trump was a direct repudiation of the GOP establishment and the political system at large.
'Both sides are awful so I'm not voting' ignores that both sides are not equally awful, and that voters can and do actually effectuate change. That change can be a net negative on the current state of affairs, as we are now seeing. So why not vote and take a side? No one will impugn your ideological purity.