The fate of the abortion pill mifepristone is now before the Supreme Court, after a fifth-circuit appeals panel of three judges ruled against its distribution last summer.
According to a new report, the wife of one of those judges—James Ho, a Trump appointee who previously served as the solicitor general of Texas—took at least six payments between 2018 and 2022 from the conservative legal group that brought the case to court.
I agree with you, both parties are not the same and we need to make sure the fascists don’t win any elections. But the person above you didn’t say not to vote, they just said voting isn’t enough, which is true. Voting is a form of harm reduction, but it’s also the least effective form of civic engagement. If we want to really change this shit, we have to get more involved than just voting every few years.
The problem with what you are saying is making voting sound like it matters less than it does. Voting is all the majority of people can do. Most people have jobs and families to take care of and can’t be political activists. However, they can just take one day out of their year to vote.
It does matter less than being more involved though. If that’s all you can do that’s perfectly fine, but if we really want to fix things we need those who can to be more involved, that’s all.
voting is not harm reduction