It’s a piece of accepted wisdom that every vote counts, and that voting is important, and perhaps the citizen’s most important contribution to their governance. I claim that if voting is the way you express your political will, then you aren’t expressing much political will. <\/p>\n
Voting is only as significant as the options being voted on. Whether it’s a student org electing the only person who would volunteer for the position, a national political party voting on the presidential nominee, or a referendum on constitutional approval, the most important decisions were made long before that point. More important than the vote is what options are being voted on. <\/p>\n
This is not to encourage despair. This is to encourage strategy, leverage and thought. Don’t invest great significance into checking a box. Something should signal that change doesn’t come so easy, because change doesn’t come so easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s a piece of accepted wisdom that every vote counts, and that voting is important, and perhaps the citizen’s most important contribution to their governance. I claim that if voting is the way you express your political will, then you aren’t expressing much political will. Voting is only as significant as the options being voted … Continue reading “Give me your thoughts: How much does voting matter?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}