also a pretty big difference between the character of candidates, between a socdem and a liberal, not to mention a fascist and a socdem... A few thousand votes would have been the difference between Gillum and Desantis, and had that happened we might not have trump again
The issue isn't voting as such, it's whether the masses are organized, when they are, then they are able to pressure political parties to support policies they want, or even influence which candidates are nominated, this is why the New Deal happened, it's not just that people voted for FDR, rather FDR was elected and was able to pass social democratic reforms becuase the masses were organized and demanded it and the ruling class was forced to grant these concessions.
So the thing is to get the people organized and they'll decide whether they'll vote or who they vote for, either voting in isolation, finger wagging people about why they should vote, or quixotically telling people who mostly don't vote anyway, why they shouldn't vote under any circumstance doesn't do anything
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