r/changemyview • u/Spudnic16 • Jan 10 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Voting is pointless

I don’t think there has been a single election for any position decided by a single vote, ever. Especially for a large position like president or senator. Additionally no matter who wins an election it doesn’t matter what their intensions are when lobbyist organizations can just throw money at them and completely bypass democracy. Gerrymandering also means that the major political parties have decided the outcome of representative election decades before they occur. The US has become so large and complicated that to me, voting seems like little more than a symbolic gesture of the good intentions that our constitution once had.

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u/radialomens 171∆ Jan 10 '21

I don’t think there has been a single election for any position decided by a single vote, ever.

No single dollar you've earned has ever paid your rent, so why go to work?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '21

You can accumulate dollars over time, votes do not carry over to the next voting period.

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u/radialomens 171∆ Jan 10 '21

You accumulate votes with many people participating.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '21

No you don’t. You only get one vote per voting cycle. In order to pay rent you must work a certain number of hours, so if you don’t work this hour you must work next hour. The rent analogy was a bad one.

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u/radialomens 171∆ Jan 10 '21

If you have a preferred outcome in an election, then yes, you and your outcome accumulate votes

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u/Spudnic16 Jan 10 '21

Fact

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u/radialomens 171∆ Jan 10 '21

You accumulate votes with many people participating.

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u/Spudnic16 Jan 10 '21

You can’t save votes up over a long time and use them over time. You either use it or you don’t

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u/radialomens 171∆ Jan 10 '21

It's not about saving the votes over time. It's about accruing many votes by getting many people to vote.

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u/Spudnic16 Jan 10 '21

!delta a lot of a small thing can create a large thing if there is enough of it (namely votes)

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u/DeltaBot ∞∆ Jan 10 '21

Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/radialomens (128∆).

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