this is an anarchist space

No, please stop and think.

Already did, but sure.

I'm telling you that you cannot infer what you think your inferring from people who didnt vote.

I'm not the one who will be doing the inferring. This should be the first thing you try to understand before trying to get me to pretend what you're suggesting is going to make sense (PS: It doesn't).

The ones who will be doing the inferring are the political strategists. The ones who tell politicians, who tell the DNC and RNC the best strategy for what they want.

You know that good ol' meme about the overton window? Want to know how it keeps cranking to the right?

"Leftists aren't voting. To get voters, you'll need to shift right."

This comes from polling information, from voting records, etc. Not voting is a great way to keep cranking that window to the right.

They aren't going to bother trying to capture the people not voting.

This is shown further with systems that allow someone like Mamdani to succeed. They are already working on one approach to capture votes, so they try to prevent situations that will require a strategy change.

You can obviously do whatever you'd like, I'm encouraging people to vote. I sure as anything won't tell people to not vote and continue decades of the same message, get the same results, and then be mad about those results.

I also know that if you want to make a difference in who is on the ballot, that doesn't happen after the ballots are set. That was months ago. I put my efforts in to push the people I wanted to then. Some of them are on the ballot, maybe I helped with it, maybe I should have done more, idk. But I did what I could and there are some progressive candidates locally that I wanted that hopefully will get in.

And if you want to change who is on the ballot too, you should also put in efforts a lot earlier than a month and change before. The deadline has already passed just about everywhere, including last-minute petitions for a vacancy.

Vote by mail ballots are being prepped (I do not recommend voting by mail, use a drop box).

Early voting is single digit weeks away.

The time to complain about who is on the ballot has long since passed.

Now take a moment and realize that if people didnt complain then, and then don't vote now, what message comes across?

Not the one you're claiming IMO.