Little bit of truth on voting from... http://darthnader.net
Truth is voting hasn’t changed anything. In the Democratic Party platform, the rank-and-file Democrats’ voices were drowned out by the elite consensus today. This same scenario is what happens everyday in American democracy. This episode was an emblematic microcosm of all the faults of our democratic system: even when the people can jump over the institutional hurdles preventing them from having their voices of protest heard, they still can’t accomplish anything, because their voices are ignored even in situations where we previously thought they could not be ignored. In the words of Emma Goldman, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”
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