When I vote, I have registered approval of one faction of politicians and have arguably lost my right to complain about the policies they go ahead and enact.
I’m confused, what if I register my approval or disapproval by protesting, distributing leaflets, making petitions to various courts or writing angry blog posts? Surely I’ve made more impact on politics by engaging in propaganda, activism and legal action than if I merely voted. Perhaps I can even get a job as a government advisor and thus directly register my approval or disapproval to the politicians themselves. Why is voting magic?
(If they lose, I should not complain either, and I should humbly submit to the outcome of the democratic process.)
Why? May I remind you who can win elections in a democracy…
Good thing the idea of “rights” is mostly incoherent anyway.
On this we agree, but I wonder why you then made your argument in that language?
I’m confused, what if I register my approval or disapproval by protesting, distributing leaflets, making petitions to various courts or writing angry blog posts? Surely I’ve made more impact on politics by engaging in propaganda, activism and legal action than if I merely voted. Perhaps I can even get a job as a government advisor and thus directly register my approval or disapproval to the politicians themselves. Why is voting magic?
Why? May I remind you who can win elections in a democracy…
On this we agree, but I wonder why you then made your argument in that language?