And he made multiple, legitimate points. You have cac, big-wigs pouring millions of dollars into single election seasons for a particular party, hosting fund-raising events, actively pushing for policies that amount to nothing more than voter suppression efforts and you have a dude like Lupe advocating voluntarily forfeiting an avenue to potentially affect change in this country.
My nikka just came home a few months ago after eight years and he's on that revolutionary shyt and I've had a shyt load of conversations with him along the same lines (his point is that the country is corrupt and nothing of consequence is changed through elections), but I always argue to the nikka that shyt doesnt have to be a binary choice. You dont have to say, if I vote, then I'm fukking hurting the broader cause. If I vote, nothing else matters. You can vote AND petition AND organize rallies AND promote a broader message that the country has an intrinsic problem AND do whatever the fukk else you need to do to really spur change in the country including arguing your point that we need a more direct type of democracy or to abolish the two party system or whatever you think is the paramount issue at hand. Voluntarily conceding one of the actual legitimate ways to hold policy-makers accountable is fukking retarded to me because there are tangible differences between candidates on the national level and in a lot of state and local elections around the country.
fukking Bush won the election by the slimmest of margins, had nikkas in Iraq three years later getting dusted for no reason other than the fact that he wanted to increase our footprint in the Middle East, the clown cut taxes, didn't pay for the war, was a huge factor in driving up the national deficit to the point that now, it's being argued that the Natl Govt should zero-fund or cut back multiple social and education programs that directly help people in abject poverty in DC, LA and everywhere in between, and packed the Supreme Court with multiple motherfukkers that think like fukking Clarence Thomas that have already overturned gun control legislation in DC and are far less likely to have a sympathetic ear to minority concerns should a legal issue make it in front of the Court. But nah, elections dont mean shyt. I understand that entrenched poverty in our communities, systemic racism and sexism and classism has stretched through multiple generations and administrations, and that a fundamental change in our political system is needed in order for us to reach the equitable society we as a country purport to want to live in, but these elections still have MAJOR consequences.
I also like the fact that my nikka DL highlighted the importance of local elections too.
I'm
my nikka DL on this one though.