• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    But with FPTP your vote for a third party changes nothing. It simply makes it easier for the other two to win.

    Advocating and protesting work. That drives change.

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      it made it easier for Joseph Biden to win? Do you have any metrics for how much change you’ve personally affected through protest and “advocating?” as my vote counted for ~1:153,000,000 (not counting for delegates and electoralism.)

      Tangentially, in 2020 I watched people protest police and its abusive practices, then when the same people got a chance to vote for the Democrat, he responded by increasing support for police nationwide.

      The other reason I ask (and my tangent only reinforces this idea) is because there’s an infamous paper from Princeton in 2014 that suggests sitting politicians Don’t care what you think. -Direct source to the paper cited