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Originally Posted by Skybird
It is often said that not to vote denies you the right to criticise them afterwards. I see it exactly the other way around: you have to know that candidates lie and cheat during campaigning, and that they twist their words and weasel their deeds around reality - if you legitimise them and signal them by voting that you will that system to go on: then you have lost your right to criticise them afterwards. Criticisng them you are only legitimised if you have not suzppoorted them before. Because after the election they will deliver you what you should have known in advance they would deliver you. You have no excuse for criticisng them, therefore.
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By not going to vote you are just supporting them.
Imagine 50% won't vote. The other 50% vote let's say:
40% CDU
25% SPD
15% Green
10% FDP
10%Left
Then the final result will read like:
40% CDU
25% SPD
15% Green
10% FDP
10%Left
No one gives a sh!t for non voters.
If people were to give an invalid vote instead it would read like this:
CDU 20%
SPD 12,5%
Green 7,5%
FDP 5%
Left 5%
invalid 50%
That would reduce their numbers dramatically because the invalids are counted as votes, yet they don't support any of the parties.
BTW don't blame everything on the politicians. It's that the people have become dumb enough to fall for such BS. If we weren't so stupid and actually interested in policy they couldn't do such nonsense.
They go they way all the private media has gone here: Dumbass entertainment 24/7.
If that's the way to catch voters they will go it.
But is this the fault of the politicians or of the people?
