"voting doesn't make a difference" ok sure mate, now I just gotta decide which is more likely, that all the votes in all the elections in all the world have never mattered in any way or that some cynical lackwit on the internet is wrong
These people never ever complete the following simple thought:
If everyone who agrees with me doesn't vote and everyone who disagrees with me does vote, who wins all the elections?
In 2018 Republicans retained control of the state House after a vote draw which was resolved by taking a name out of a film canister. When people say votes don't count, show them this story www.npr.org/2018/01/04/5...
in the first past the post system of voting, thinking your vote matters and is the winning vote that pushed the winner over the finish line is deluded. no such thing happens in the illiberal democracies that use this system. there is that. if you are stating that voting matters then make a case
You miss the point:
It isn't that voting doesn't affect which of the two representatives of the Ruling Class get to represent you.
It's that the bourgeoisie owns the media, lobbies the candidates, and basically decides who *gets* to be one of the candidates in the first place.