Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Yes, in the sense that everything has a consequence (butterfly effect). But I should not be compelled to vote any particular way because the power structure that’s supposed to keep policy and candidates within a certain range (or outside certain spheres of deviancy, to use a journalist’s descriptive) completely fuck up their job.

There are quiet but powerful failsafes in place to placate or defuse populists. Both parties and the corporate and bureaucratic power structures have totally failed in implementing them.

Normal people* want to vote so as to make things better, and/or avoid things getting worse.

*Third party voters are often not normal, preferring their fantasies over what ca actually happen.