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Cemith posted...

I agree, but I'm not the one that apparently needs to be convinced that voting is good.

Change is granular and short of a revolution does not happen overnight.

You don't convince someone that voting is good by simply telling them that, especially when they don't believe any options that actually represent them or will improve their lives are on the table.

You do it by getting them involved in a social/economic project to transform things, they have to believe that better things are possible and that they have a role in securing those better things. That they can join with other people to influence the conditions of their lives. Then voting becomes a matter of course as part of that larger project. That's orders of magnitude more effective than telling someone to vote so their life doesn't get 80% worse instead of 20% worse.

That doesn't have to be revolutionary, but you can't always fight through well justified apathy with fear. There has to be something better and a way to achieve it that's different from what people are already doing.