…What does it mean if we get rid of the arrogant liberal assumption that these non-voters are just too stupid to realize voting is important, and instead understand non voters as a demographic who are making a rational decision to refuse to waste their time on a system which has very little to offer them?
Well then we might have to stop giving democratic socialists the benefit of the doubt when they say electoral politics is pragmatic or an obviously easy direction for socialist organizing to move it. We might just have to consider that these non-voters are not interested in the capitalist state, and that many are just waiting to be offer an alternative.
Brief Thoughts on Non-Voters – Alyson Escalante
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