Has there ever been a political party that wasn’t a disappointment once in power in the last few decades?
You basically have to choose the least bad options.
You basically have to choose the least bad options.
- the EEC would have stayed as just that, I suspect. Perhaps the EU would have formed without us, hard to know.
- yup
For two reasons:
First, because politics is an ecosystem, and political parties are much stronger than unorganized political actors, so they outcompete and win. Your effectiveness is multiplied tremendously if you have an organized group which can fundraise, make small compromises among its members to reach common goals, scan membership to find compelling leaders, etc. Unorganized political actors have no chance against parties, and so they adapt (by becoming parties themselves) or die.
Second, because "political parties" are just a fact of gathering large numbers of humans: they will always have different opinions, and form tribes and cliques with like-minded people. If you don't have explicit parties, you will have hidden, implicit, internal ones, and that is much worse. See The Tyranny of Structurelessness, or alternatively one-party states like China, which still do have political factions, because having political factions is something people naturally do, but hide these behind the opacity of the CCP, leading to much less transparent decision-making.
And then there's this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202...
I do not think our rulers (or their advisors at least) are complete dummies.
Do you? I choose not to vote because I refuse to participate in a charade of false consensus. If you pick the lesser of two evils, you are still picking evil.
The obvious -- yet never stated -- reason voter turnout is so bad in the United States is that the candidates offered are such garbage.
The world isn't perfect. There will always be issues with candidates, because the world is messy and complex. If you chose not to vote for the lesser of two evils, you leave more opportunity for the _greater_ to succeed.
"What are you complaining about? You asked for it?"
Sticking your head in the sand just gives more opportunity for _you_ to get the worse outcome.
Dream bigger. I mean unless you love the current shitshow.
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
I know I’m not living in a totalitarian state like Solzhenitsyn, but yet I am refusing to eat dog shit cause it tastes better than cat shit.
The system is going to continue on, for the near future at least. If you've got some plan to fix 'the current shitshow', do that, _while making the best out of the current shitshow_.
You say you are refusing to eat dog shit. You're not. You're just letting society decide which shit you eat, without putting your vote in. The better, or worse, of two evils is still going to be elected. You're still going to be part of that system unless you're entirely off grid and self sufficient.