That has literally only happened like 3 times in the history of presidents. The standard way is the electoral college is supossed to vote in favor of the general population.
You are absolutely correct! In the grand scheme of things, your individual vote does not matter. What does matter is when 70% of the country thinks that and doesn't vote. Democracy is a social thing, and when people communicate and cooperate a lot of individual votes join together and they do matter.
The United states is not a democracy, is a republic. The electoral college is supposed to vote in favor of whomever won the popular vote but they don't have to so it doesn't always happen. However, that doesn't mean our votes don't make a difference. For example, if Bernie Sanders beats Donald Trump by a landslide in the popular vote, the representatives in the electoral college are more obligated to vote for sanders to keep the support of their local voters. Bush lost the popular vote to gore, but just barely, so when the electoral college voted, they didn't have to worry about upsetting such a large number of voters. Everyone should vote, but not for a color or a single campaign promise. Most people don't agree with the people they plan on voting for as much as they think. Everyone should vote, but they should only do so if they are informed on the candidate. Politucal parties are only beneficial to corrupt politics and government. They don't make progress, they make distractions to
Keep the people arguing with each other and powerless, if not completely oblivious to what the the government is actually doing. The government, specifically the nsa, is spying on us. Every single person that has any technological connection whatsoever is completely exposed. Anything we do through the Internet is available to the government, but we've done nothing about it. Why? Because political parties keep us distracted and against each other through the media.
So because no one the perfect candidate you're gonna let the worst candidate have a better chance of winning because you don't wanna vote ?
Even if none of them are perfect it's better to have the guy who's the least bad win.
they dont vote because there's nobody worth voting for
all candidates are just puppets for the same rich bastards
Even if none of them are perfect it's better to have the guy who's the least bad win.