100% true 4 years ago, 100% true now
Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
30 Sep 2020
"Citizens who vote for third-party candidates, write-in candidates, or nobody aren’t voting their conscience, they are voting their ego, unable to accept that a system they find personally disheartening actually applies to them." medium.com/@cshirky/theres-n…
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It’s people who want to enforce their will on everyone unable to accept that their crappy system doesn’t have to apply to others.
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Replying to @vkornov
Not sure what you’re trying to say. That the (stupid, crazy and undemocratic) two-party system doesn’t apply to some US citizens right now?

Sep 30, 2020 · 7:15 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
It does apply. But you can also refuse to allow it to apply. It’s a man made construction, not a law of nature. When people protest, they also make that choice, they don’t want it to apply to them. Slavery was a system that applied to everyone yet people said no.
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The point of the article is that trying to protest it by not participating, especially in a situation like these, is just a sure way of things making worse for yourself. It doesn’t improve anything, or prove a point, or benefit anyone in any way.
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