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In reply to the discussion: WHY VOTE? [View all]

TreasonousBastard

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6. Somewhere, with all this American talk of indvidualism, we forgot that...
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 04:55 AM
Feb 2016

voting is not an individual act but a social act. My one vote may or may not count for much, but the thousands, or millions, of other votes that join it certainly do.

Democracy is not perfect by any means-- we get lousy candidates, stolen elections, and all sorts of other problems with it, but it is still the most enduring form of governing around.

But it won't work at all if we don't use it.

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