Thanks for writing this. Former newspaper writer turned freelancer here; I’ve been dismayed by the careerists downplaying the protest vote. Last week I reported on the fracturing among South Asian progressives in Atlanta over unwavering Dem support: https://285south.substack.com/p/south-asian-voter-group-splits-with
They won't listen to us when we vote for them, they won't listen when we don't vote for them, they probably won't listen when we threaten to withhold our vote for them, so what does it matter?
I love the wave function metaphor. The problem is that the wave function collapse probably already happened back at 20k slaughtered, before they stopped counting. There's no superposition left to measure, only people outside the lab that are in denial of what was observed and scrambling desperately to reset the experiment. It's Joever, as they say. I don't think you need to worry about that rah rah moment. But even for the ones holding out on that chance, it's important to remember that voting, esp in national elections, is not all the leverage (it took me years to understand this, after hearing it articulated repeatedly by minds much smarter than mine) - voting is no more than a wee portion of real activism, and shouldn't be seen as the act that is going to change the world (nor, likewise, save the world).
Thanks for writing this. Former newspaper writer turned freelancer here; I’ve been dismayed by the careerists downplaying the protest vote. Last week I reported on the fracturing among South Asian progressives in Atlanta over unwavering Dem support: https://285south.substack.com/p/south-asian-voter-group-splits-with
They won't listen to us when we vote for them, they won't listen when we don't vote for them, they probably won't listen when we threaten to withhold our vote for them, so what does it matter?
I love the wave function metaphor. The problem is that the wave function collapse probably already happened back at 20k slaughtered, before they stopped counting. There's no superposition left to measure, only people outside the lab that are in denial of what was observed and scrambling desperately to reset the experiment. It's Joever, as they say. I don't think you need to worry about that rah rah moment. But even for the ones holding out on that chance, it's important to remember that voting, esp in national elections, is not all the leverage (it took me years to understand this, after hearing it articulated repeatedly by minds much smarter than mine) - voting is no more than a wee portion of real activism, and shouldn't be seen as the act that is going to change the world (nor, likewise, save the world).