i don't vote. only did once. think the bumper sticker i saw: "no matter who you vote for the government always gets in" sums it up pretty clearly, and the following article provides even more reasons not to participate in their theater;
When I say there is nobody to vote for, I don’t just mean the
familiar complaint that the candidates may be different shades of evil
but are all too evil to support, that the earth’s climate does not
recover one iota because some even worse policy has been averted, that
sadistic bombings and humanitarian bombings actually look identical. I
do mean all of that. But I also mean that candidates are campaigning as
and being presented as nothing, as empty figures with no positions on
anything.
What is the most common foreign policy position on the websites of
Democratic candidates for U.S. Congress? Quick! It’s not hard! You got
it? You’re wrong. It was a trick question. Most of their websites do not
admit to the existence of 96% of humanity in any way shape or form —
although one can infer that the world must exist, because so many of
them express such deep love for veterans.
Numerous resources claim to fill the gap, but like private weather
profiteers regurgitating federal data, they mostly just pick out bits of
the almost nothing coming from the candidates and re-package it as
Useful Voter Information. The Campus Election Engagement Project has
nothing on Virginia’s Fifth District Congressional race, and on the
Virginia race for U.S. Senate it has next to nothing.
In a nod to the existence of the earth, it tells us the candidates’
positions on the Iran nuclear agreement, plus three questions on the
environment. But the fact that one of the two candidates’ whole schtick
is hatred of immigrants, glorification of racism, and fascistic devotion
to Trump doesn’t come up in the predictable policy questions. Nor does
the duplicity of the other guy’s constant support for presidential
war-making, while claiming to oppose it, make the cut.
https://washingtonsblog.com/2018/10/nobody-to-vote-for.html
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