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    12 days ago

    Current US government is shutdown down because the two sides can’t come to an agreement on a budget to include if health care protections should be stripped from some of the most vulnerable.

    The people engaged in that decision are there because they were chosen in elections. Trump is president because he was chosen in an election. SCOTUS is stacked with Republican justices because the people that get to pick them were put there in elections.

    America still has elections and though the choices may not be great the results are not (yet) predetermined; one of those options is undeniably better. My next election I get to vote on if all children in public school should have access to food.

    Yeah, the electoral system is deeply flawed but there’s really only two ways to change it–replace the government by force or replace the government by electing people willing to push reforms in enough numbers to do something about it. It’s the system we find ourselves in and participation is not an endorsement, but a means to an end.

    It should never be “just Vote,” but instead “Vote and.” If you can spend hours at protests, feeding those in need, hosting theory book clubs, studying, engaging in activism, etc then you can take 1 hour a year to vote.