Jim Devine wrote: > Sure, I'm going to vote for whomever the Dems choose, to prevent the > current version of Bush from being elected. But I know that the vote > is wasted. It's totally "harmless to the corporations." (Besides, as > the anarchists say, if voting could change the system it would be > illegal.)
[clip] > Voting is a futile act. We have to find those acts that aren't futile. The average influence of one individual vote is infinitesimally small, negligible. But it doesn't follow from it that the aggregate influence of voting is negligible. So, in this sense, the argument that "voting is a futile act" is fallacious -- as in fallacy of composition. Dan Scanlan wrote: > Both Clinton and Obama are corporate functionaries. Clinton's job is to > corral the votes of those who seek equality of the sexes. Obama's job > is to corral the votes of those who seek racial justice. We need to stop thinking of regular working people as cattle. Whether Clinton or Obama, or those who write for them the big checks, think of people as cattle to be corralled, doesn't entail that people will simply accepted the corralling. When one thinks of the working people as conscious agents of history (even if their current actions don't measure up to the high expectations of some leftists), the whole picture changes.
