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“I Am Done Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. I Will Not Vote for Joe Biden in 2024.” (inthesetimes.com)

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Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

So the part of this that stood out to me the most is this:

Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest.

Now we have ~80 million people abstaining in the 2020 elections (per NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/945031391/poll-despite-record-turnout-80-million-americans-didnt-vote-heres-why), and yet the dumb farce goes on. If people continue removing themselves from the voter pool, it'll still continue on. I'm failing to see the hope here. Maybe that's why I'm having a hard time understanding this point of view.

Thanks again for pointing me to that link.