D. Ray
2024-11-05 23:43:17 UTC
I'm not voting for Trump today, and I'm not doing this as way of being
stubborn or contrarian or I'm letting the "perfect be the enemy of the
good."
In the first place, my vote doesn't matter, it's purely symbolic. We live
in a winner-take-all system, there is no proportional representation, so
voting in general barely matters, and voting for president in anything but
a "swing state" actually doesn't matter at all.
Another reason my vote doesn't matter is because the two leading candidates
are the product of an absolute plutocracy. That means if you're not a
billionaire, you have no ability to influence the candidates in a
meaningful way. It's like voting on which galaxy you like better,
Andromeda or Ursa Major? As a mere Earthling, you have no ability to
influence the gravitational forces of clusters of billions of stars
millions of light-years away--and as a working-class person you have no
ability to influence presidential politics in a plutocracy.
With all of that said (and it's important to say it because not enough of
our people exist in the real world), why am I not even casting a symbolic
vote for Donald Trump?
Because if I give my consent to voting for Trump, based on his own
principles outlined in "The Art of the Deal," I will have given away my
last microscopic speck of leverage over him and the Republican Party. If
Trump wins, he's not going to credit White people, even if record numbers
of White working class people put him over the line. He will credit
Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities for his victory, which will
sanction and further accelerate the MAGA trend of an increasingly
diversified GOP (with the corresponding reduction of influence of White
Republicans). White people begging, hat in hand, for bread crumbs from a
Republican Party that refuses to acknowledge they exist, will only result
in a further diminishing of our interests. Only by protesting, not
cooperating, withholding our consent and our approval, will we get any
concessions out of the GOP or the System as a whole.
My vote would also symbolically sanction the choice of Miriam Adelson,
Randy Fine, Benjamin Netanyahu and Itimar Ben-Gvir, the worst enemies of
humanity, and as Ben Shapiro has correctly pointed out, it will be Howard
Lutnick and Jared Kushner hand-picking the staff of the second Trump
administration. In the face of such naked Zionist power over Trump, a vote
for Trump is essentially a vote for Israeli meddling, or even direct
Israeli control over the presidency. We don't advance our interests or our
sovereignty by elevating traitors in the service of a foreign power! That
should be simple enough.
Another major reason I'm not voting for Trump is I agree with Ben Shapiro
that the best indication of what Trump's second term will be like is what
his first term was like. Many of the "Never Trumpers" who opposed him in
2016 are now enthusiastically supporting him in 2024--what changed? We had
four years of Trump in office, and based on that new information the Never
Trumpers have adjusted their politics accordingly. If those of us who
supported him in 2016 don't take the same information into account, then
this is simply wishful thinking.
Another important fact to note, something else Shapiro and many others have
observed, is that the so-called "guardrails" on what is called "our
democracy" are "strong enough to withstand" Trumpism. What that really
means is that the courts are rigged, the Congress is bought off in such a
way that even if Trump wanted to make big changes, he wouldn't be able to
do it. The GOP is rotten to the core, this is why they aren't busy
implementing the MAGA agenda in places they already control, like the state
of Ohio. The vast majority of conservative judges & legislators will block
all the most popular elements of MAGA. A vote for Trump will effectivity
be another vote for empowering the conservative status quo that has been
slowly killing our people for decades.
<https://x.com/Ahab4K/status/1853868615260688424?t=3QmV5uzpLr8KkwgLQ14pnQ&s=19>
stubborn or contrarian or I'm letting the "perfect be the enemy of the
good."
In the first place, my vote doesn't matter, it's purely symbolic. We live
in a winner-take-all system, there is no proportional representation, so
voting in general barely matters, and voting for president in anything but
a "swing state" actually doesn't matter at all.
Another reason my vote doesn't matter is because the two leading candidates
are the product of an absolute plutocracy. That means if you're not a
billionaire, you have no ability to influence the candidates in a
meaningful way. It's like voting on which galaxy you like better,
Andromeda or Ursa Major? As a mere Earthling, you have no ability to
influence the gravitational forces of clusters of billions of stars
millions of light-years away--and as a working-class person you have no
ability to influence presidential politics in a plutocracy.
With all of that said (and it's important to say it because not enough of
our people exist in the real world), why am I not even casting a symbolic
vote for Donald Trump?
Because if I give my consent to voting for Trump, based on his own
principles outlined in "The Art of the Deal," I will have given away my
last microscopic speck of leverage over him and the Republican Party. If
Trump wins, he's not going to credit White people, even if record numbers
of White working class people put him over the line. He will credit
Blacks, Hispanics and other racial minorities for his victory, which will
sanction and further accelerate the MAGA trend of an increasingly
diversified GOP (with the corresponding reduction of influence of White
Republicans). White people begging, hat in hand, for bread crumbs from a
Republican Party that refuses to acknowledge they exist, will only result
in a further diminishing of our interests. Only by protesting, not
cooperating, withholding our consent and our approval, will we get any
concessions out of the GOP or the System as a whole.
My vote would also symbolically sanction the choice of Miriam Adelson,
Randy Fine, Benjamin Netanyahu and Itimar Ben-Gvir, the worst enemies of
humanity, and as Ben Shapiro has correctly pointed out, it will be Howard
Lutnick and Jared Kushner hand-picking the staff of the second Trump
administration. In the face of such naked Zionist power over Trump, a vote
for Trump is essentially a vote for Israeli meddling, or even direct
Israeli control over the presidency. We don't advance our interests or our
sovereignty by elevating traitors in the service of a foreign power! That
should be simple enough.
Another major reason I'm not voting for Trump is I agree with Ben Shapiro
that the best indication of what Trump's second term will be like is what
his first term was like. Many of the "Never Trumpers" who opposed him in
2016 are now enthusiastically supporting him in 2024--what changed? We had
four years of Trump in office, and based on that new information the Never
Trumpers have adjusted their politics accordingly. If those of us who
supported him in 2016 don't take the same information into account, then
this is simply wishful thinking.
Another important fact to note, something else Shapiro and many others have
observed, is that the so-called "guardrails" on what is called "our
democracy" are "strong enough to withstand" Trumpism. What that really
means is that the courts are rigged, the Congress is bought off in such a
way that even if Trump wanted to make big changes, he wouldn't be able to
do it. The GOP is rotten to the core, this is why they aren't busy
implementing the MAGA agenda in places they already control, like the state
of Ohio. The vast majority of conservative judges & legislators will block
all the most popular elements of MAGA. A vote for Trump will effectivity
be another vote for empowering the conservative status quo that has been
slowly killing our people for decades.
<https://x.com/Ahab4K/status/1853868615260688424?t=3QmV5uzpLr8KkwgLQ14pnQ&s=19>