Voting For The Lesser Enemy Is A Waste Of Political Power
By Robby LaBurne
The real power struggle is not between liberals and conservatives but between the elites and you. They want to raise the prices of your food, housing, and medicine, replace you with artificial intelligence, keep you subdued by addictions to pharmaceuticals and technology, and decide what you think. And the government supports them, spending your tax dollars to fund forever wars, turning a blind eye to their exploitative practices, and facilitating the domination of monopoly corporations.
There is no lesser of two evils because there are not two evils to begin with. There is only one evil, the warmongering, decadent imperialist class. It has a more outright half and a mellower one. Not Scylla and Charybdis, but Quirell and Voldemort.
Biden continued Trump’s border policy of kids and cages. Kissinger and Nixon spread Johnson’s chemical warfare to Laos and Cambodia. Clinton and Trump were on Epstein Island together. Obama sent John McCain to negotiate with terrorists to combat the Assad government in Syria [Source].
More recently, 366 out of 435 representatives from both parties sent billions in arms to Israel, a bill which Biden signed. The White House confirmed that the security of Zionism was an “ironclad commitment” paramount to the preservation of civilian life. If a Democratic President will defend the settler colony at all costs, how much worse could a Republican one really be?
If this isn’t enough, look at who is donating to both parties. Spoiler alert, it’s the same corporations. Sure, their politicians may yell at each other a lot, but this is only to get you angry and vote for one or the other. Since both parties serve the same exploitative interests, and the same oppressive ideas, there is no point in choosing one over the other and allowing them to have power over you.
I predict that liberals will respond to this answer by saying that a world where they are in power is much better than a world where “the fascist MAGA Project 2025 Alt-Right Trump” is. Given the institutional design of the U.S. government, even this is not true.
The U.S. Senate filibuster requires any legislation to have 60 votes to pass. Nothing radical like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, or on the flip side, a border wall could pass through that. This is why in his first term, the only thing Trump could pass was a massive tax cut package. Obama’s landmark achievement, the ACA, has since been mostly repealed. What makes you think that a transformative agenda can be passed through a system that requires the consent of both parties and the corporations who control them?
And the elected part of the government, even if it was free, truly has little sway over most things that actually matter. The interest on your loan? That’s decided by the Federal Reserve. What corporations do with your data? That’s determined by the FCC. The mind-numbing and disappearance of targeted individuals? That’s executed by the intelligence community. Your vote isn’t going to impact that at all.
Voting won’t change 99% of what matters to you, and certainly won’t change anything about what happens to the victims of a genocide. All it may do is give you a false sense of power.
It would be a mistake, however, to assert that you are truly powerless. In reality, you, as in the American masses, are immensely powerful, yet simply haven’t realized it.
You have the power to bankrupt the oppressive government by refusing to “buy their sh*t.” Some of us have already stopped purchasing McDonald’s and Coke, and look at how their boards have been panicking. Just imagine, for a second, how much weaker the U.S. empire would be if it knew that it no longer had the consent of its own people. We could have less wars, less incarceration, less CIA-sponsored drug addiction operations, less forced disappearances, and maybe some real freedom for once. You can help achieve that by ripping up your ballot and not voting.