[+] -7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

This is historically false. While protests and activism created the pressure, the actual mechanisms that granted rights were legislative votes.

  • The 19th Amendment required a two-thirds vote in Congress and ratification by 36 states.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were bills passed by Congress and signed by a President.
  • During the Civil Rights era low black voter turnout was a direct result of voter suppression (poll taxes, literacy tests, violence). The entire point of the movement was to secure the right to vote so they could participate.
  • The New Deal was passed through electoral politics
  • The Affordable Care Act expanded healthcare to millions.

Respectfully you are making shit up and being disrespectful to those who fought for this.

Conversely, it was voting that actively reversed the machine recently. The overturning of Roe v. Wade happened because a specific political coalition won elections and appointed Supreme Court justices. If voting doesn't matter, why did the religious right spend 50 years obsessing over it to achieve their goals?

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  • [–] -5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    There are material differences between the parties, pretending their policy is the exact same isn't enlightenment it's delusion. People should hold specifically institutional democrats accountable for stifling progress I'm with you there but the only thing not voting ever got us was less time to work with and worse conditions to do it in.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    As apposed to dropping even more bombs and not being any incentives, and like I said you don't stop there, that's the start, you still protest, you still advocate for direct action. One does not proclude the other

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (13 children)

    They were terrible but I'd take a C- over the current F just saying. Not voting won't make them care more about climate change, hearing it in primaries from engaged voting populace is what dictates policy. It's why boomers had so much sway because they know they'll vote.

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