Voting vs other actions isn’t a dichotomy - you can vote for the lesser evil to buy time, AND do the things that will make a real and lasting impact.
In our current system though, red team vs blue IS a dichotomy - using your vote you can nudge the counter a tiny bit closer to one side or the other; or opt out / vote third, which both equate to doing nothing and letting you’re countrymen choose for you, but the potential results are the same: red or blue.
So, you can use your vote however you want, but I’d recommend pitching that nudge away from the more blatant Nazis. …but also build those guillotines for use against hostile actors regardless of party.
What folks 100% should NOT do though is vote and then consider their ‘civic duty’ satisfied, which is ofc the sentiment OP is aimed at.
Voting for a different party of genocidal imperialists doesn’t actually buy time to organize, though. Both parties fund ICE, both wage war on the global south, both are actively against worker organization that stands to threaten the system they both stand for.
I personally do not care if someone votes, as long as they are also organizing. If someone is only engaged with politics via voting, then they have no leg to stand on when others advocate for voting third party and organizing in real life. If someone organizes and happens to vote DNC, I really could not care less, they can do that as long as they actually participate in party building.
Voting vs other actions isn’t a dichotomy - you can vote for the lesser evil to buy time, AND do the things that will make a real and lasting impact.
In our current system though, red team vs blue IS a dichotomy - using your vote you can nudge the counter a tiny bit closer to one side or the other; or opt out / vote third, which both equate to doing nothing and letting you’re countrymen choose for you, but the potential results are the same: red or blue.
So, you can use your vote however you want, but I’d recommend pitching that nudge away from the more blatant Nazis. …but also build those guillotines for use against hostile actors regardless of party.
What folks 100% should NOT do though is vote and then consider their ‘civic duty’ satisfied, which is ofc the sentiment OP is aimed at.
Voting for a different party of genocidal imperialists doesn’t actually buy time to organize, though. Both parties fund ICE, both wage war on the global south, both are actively against worker organization that stands to threaten the system they both stand for.
I personally do not care if someone votes, as long as they are also organizing. If someone is only engaged with politics via voting, then they have no leg to stand on when others advocate for voting third party and organizing in real life. If someone organizes and happens to vote DNC, I really could not care less, they can do that as long as they actually participate in party building.