Only that voting is an opiate while spending has direct real world consequences.
Not voting also has very direct, real world consequences as well. Wars, etc.
We as a citizenry haven’t opened the doors to better candidates over decades with a long-term strategy and we’re now seeing the end result. Corporatists, in general, thrive on false equivalency and that’s why their corporate media spends so much time and effort conflating lesser and greater evil as one in the same. It creates a ping pong effect, instead of slow, progressive change over decades.
Do you really think it’s by accident that most Americans think that Democratic Representatives at large supported the Iraq War resolution when they didn’t? Democratic Representatives who voted against the war vastly outnumbered Republicans.
If the American public had resisted falling for false equivalence and had voted in more lesser evil Democrats up to that point, we wouldn’t have entered the Iraq War. That’s just one of many disasters that could have been averted if less Americans embraced false equivalence, short-term thinking and voted in more lesser evil instead.
And, once again, on top of going into more wars (Syria, Iran, etc.) by not voting we usher in yet more Republicans that make gerrymandering and voter suppression an art form and make third party penetration near impossible down the road.
