Angela Davis is making a materialist argument for voting for Biden which is different from a moralist one. If you don't buy into voting as the romance of representation and measure of one's politics, this seems like totally reasonable for a radical to do

I have not voted at times in my life. I was persuaded that voting does affect the terrain people organize on and that matters to me in trying to actualize radical shit. Voting is not the representative dream the US sells, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a materialist use

It was important for me to realize my not voting was often a symptom of my own moralist position that was disappointed that the dream of democracy through voting was a lie. But accepting that disappointment, I'm now able to just view it for what it is. Not a lot, but not nothing.

And I guess I can't get over how hard it is for black folks to vote. Which is an expression of all the avenues folks will block to preserve anti-black order. Voting sure as hell won't dismantle that, Biden sucks, etc. And also, rad folks are doing cool shit via elections

Anyways, thanks @MarikaRose and @ckunzelman for a long time ago being like "it seems pretty low stakes to put a vote in" which I totally agree with now! it took me 5 minutes and I was like...that took so little from me now I can get back to whatever political shit I think is rad

Anyway, it's not "good" or "bad" to vote or not. It's really about what are you doing to organize for a different reality. If you can you take a bit of time & you have accessible voting, it seems just materially beneficial to try and shift the terrain you organize on by voting