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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

To add to what you said, if you use your symbolic vote to vote for people who give weapons to murder brown people and bomb people for being opposed to murding brown people, then your vote symbolizes support for those policies. If people will vote for those policies, then politicians will adopt them. If people won't vote for them, then those politicians will "evolve" on those issues. Why would they change if it gets them elected?

Unless there's more than a 0.0000000001% chance of my vote changing the election, I won't consider voting for Biden when a lot of his policies are so far from policies I want in a number of ways. Why wouldn't I use my vote to prove to politicians that there are votes to be had from different policies?