It’s also in my experience the most terminally online leftists are the ones going online complaining about other people not voting instead of like actually doing organizing. I certainly don’t see a lot of them outside the internet or when doing things that actually matter instead of putting a piece of paper in a box thinking it changes anything.
There is this twitter thread from George Takei where he says “we vote as a prayer” and it made me so angry I still think about it now months since I’ve seen it, because he doesn’t even believe in prayer to a higher power able to effect change (AFAIK, please correct me if I’m wrong). So he literally says voting doesn’t work but dresses is up as like this solemn and mindful act that you are obligated to do regardless of whether you believe in it or not.
Edit: also the deification the US system. That is the word I was looking for. The unchangeable, powerful, benevolent governmental structure that the citizen should pray to by casting their votes
Guy spent his childhood in a Japanese internment camp during ww2. If anyone should know how useless US electoralism is it should be him.
What the FUCK