08-07-2020, 04:53 PM
(08-07-2020, 04:48 PM)hollodero Wrote: Well, the overall futility of a single vote is a different topic. Sure, a single vote doesn't change anything, yet overall in a democracy a citizen is asked to not let the factual insignificance of his single vote determine his behaviour on the voting booth. Hence he is also asked to overcome that paradoxon.
I mean, you voted for Johnson because it still meant something. I'm not content with accepting the argument that it really didn't.
Of course I didn't blame you for the election outcome. Can someone even imagine if the election was actually decided by a single vote in Ohio? Literally millions of heroes' stories, all narrating how one person and his whole life story, leading to his one decision on the voting booth, changed the fate of the country forever...
I hear ya, it's just interesting how voting 3rd party is both a waste and yet critical to "the other guy winning" at the same time. Even I can't tell how important I am. Also im in western PA so any non Trump vote is extra useless.