Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Here's The Thing About Voting Democrat..." video.

Indeed. Like it or not, refusing to vote for Democrats only enables Republicans, and we have seen decades of idiots thinking that holding out will make Democrats bend to their will, when all it does it just pull the Overton Window that much farther to the right.
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@mr.giggles4995 Oh, look. Someone who thinks he knows how things work but manages to get everything completely wrong in order to absolve himself of the role he has played in this mess.
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@ballz4kidz And when it shifts to the right, that is because of lazy nihilists who refuse to vote or do any actual work when they don't get their way.
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@ballz4kidz The only reason we don't have a fascist dictatorship now is because Trump didn't appoint enough total sycophants willing to destroy democracy for Der Orangefuhrer. Given a second term, he won't make that mistake again. This isn't a game, no matter how much people like you pretend it is.
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@TheMPExperience Refusing to choose the lesser evil leaves you with the greater evil.
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@ballz4kidz I do a lot more than voting. What do you actually do? Funny how the people who say that voting does nothing sot back and wonder why things don't ever change towards the way they want them to happen? Here's a hint: the people on the other side vote every time. Therefore, they get there way. People like you who think that you are revolutionaries turn out to be reactionaries after all.
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@akumakorgar If you're not lazy, then what are you actually doing? Commenting on YouTube doesn't count, and "being angry enough to strangle people" isn't action.
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@akumakorgar Oooh, tough man. And this is where the term keyboard warrior reveals itself.
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@fireandblood2919 Well, what are you doing to make it something other than a do-nothing party? If you think that the Democratic Party should do more, do something about it. Protest votes or whining about it online does nothing.
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@akumakorgar Well, what do you do? I asked you first. I have dealt with far too many people who insist that they aren't lazy and are really doing something, but almost every single time, it falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. So, what do you do?
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If you are really a lefty who in can't bring yourself to vote rather than a right-wing troll pretending to be a lefty to sow discord, then you apparently don't understand that if lefties don't vote, the winning primary candidate will be farther to the right, which will get you the opposite of what you claim to want. Great plan!
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@sol5916 One party has over 90% of elected officials wanting to increase the minimum wage to $15, and the other has zero. One party has given itself to fascism, and the other hasn't. I don't know if you say these things to make yourself feel better or to convince others of your lies to help the Republicans, but I'm not surprised by the lies since you haven't said anything honest yet.
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@sol5916 Florida approved it through a ballot initiative. Minimum wage increases literally have a perfect record as ballot initiatives. Are you continuing to carry on in the hopes that probability will kick in sooner or later?
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@sol5916 And there it is. It didn't take long for the mask to come off to expose that you are really a right wing troll trying to convince lefties not to vote.
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@sol5916 No, when you made the remark about how "the other side is authoritarian" and needs to stop telling you how to live your life, you gave yourself away. Confusing a ballot initiative with a legislative act is just an example of your stupidity.
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@akumakorgar Well, then, I commend you for doing actual work. Probably the most pathetic example I remember was someone who had PhD in his handle who insisted that he was not a revolutionary but thought that a revolution was inevitable. I have been involved with plenty of efforts, including a petition/canvassing drive that convinced a member of Congress (Brendan Boyle) to sign on as a cosponsor for Medicare for All.
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@akumakorgar Because history has shown that nothing is inevitable. And if you're not going to do anything to make it happen, no oke is going to come to you begging for advice. And, guess what, if you don't care about elections, you won't get any change at all, so the best that you can hope for is begging for scraps from people unsympathetic to your movement. I saw it up close in West Virginia where plenty of people lamented that there was a lack of support for pro-choice policies in the state legislature even though Democrats at the time had a greater than 2:1 majority in each house. Well, the fact that the leading pro-choice group in the state was a 501 (c)(3) and the leading anti-abortion group was a PAC, what did they expect? If you put no one in office, you can't complain that they aren't responsive to you.
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@akumakorgar The suffragettes ultimately got what they wanted through electoralism. Labor didn't get nearly as much as they did until they actually got sympathetic people in office. If it was all left to battles like Blait Mountain instead of getting the Wagner Act, nothing would have happened. If people unsympathetic to the civil rights movement were in Congress and the Supreme Court, nothing would have happened. Once you say that voting does nothing, you automatically reduce your possible avenues for getting anything. Quite frankly, I don't care what you think about my opinion, because you'll still be coming around decades for now insisting that voting is a waste of time and the real revolutionaries like you will have victory just around the corner.
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@akumakorgar Of course, you have a right to object. I meant "don't complain" in the sense of don't be shocked when nothing happens.
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