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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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?
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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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Replying to @vkornov
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.

Oct 1, 2020 · 7:40 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
Sometimes enough is enough. The system works until people participate in the system. If the system is no longer perceived as just and working for the people, when is the time to get out?
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Definitely not when electing one of the options means endangering democracy itself
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