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Something that’s worn me down recently is the amount of people threatening to either not vote or vote third party, then angrily baiting others into “persuading” them otherwise so that the Democratic Party can “earn” their vote. It is almost always white men.
While empathy can certainly be thought, it is not my job or anyone else’s to expend emotional labor on you. If you are aware of the genocide in American detention camps, the resistance of Trump’s party to respect the democratic process, and his choice to let 200k+ people die,
and you are still spending your time baiting others into drawing you a diagram rather than voting to cause the least amount of harm to the least amount of people, you do not get my emotional labor. If you are imcapable of decentering yourself from today’s political landscape, you
are likely someone who is primarily concerned about feeling special, edgy, and self-congratulatory for being “above” the two-party system. The problem is: as long as fascism has a hold of one of those parties, the only responsible choice is to vote for its opposite.
I’m not saying that there aren’t problems with the two-party system. I’m saying that unless we act now, we get a one-party system where any political dissent is targeted and any progressive action impossible. If you have watched 4 years of instability and human rights violations
and still need someone to say the magic words to “persuade” you to vote, your problem isn’t that your voice isn’t being heard, it’s that your voice is drowning out the women undergoing forced hysterectomies; the children being abused daily at the border.
** the second tweet in this thread should read “empathy can be taught,” not “thought.” Blame autocorrect, etc!
