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Yavin4

(35,432 posts) Tue May 1, 2018, 04:15 PM May 2018

You vote in America to protect your interests. You organize movements to advance your interests.

Copyright Yavin4 2018.

People confuse with voting with advancement. No, voting is primarily to protect the progress that you've already made. When you want to progress further, that's where you get involved in movements that work to advance your interests by putting pressure on the politicians, the corporations, and the courts to enact change.

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You vote in America to protect your interests. You organize movements to advance your interests. (Original Post) Yavin4 May 2018 OP

Pressure accomplished through voting zipplewrath May 2018 #1

One also votes to protect the most vulnerable people in our society from folks who would do them emulatorloo May 2018 #2

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

1. Pressure accomplished through voting

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 04:17 PM

May 2018

Organizations that can put voters in voting booths are the ones with the ability to advance interests.
i.e. Labor Unions and the NRA. In the past it was the WCTU. Too some extent the AARP can have some clout, to a great degree because retired people vote.

emulatorloo

(44,106 posts)

2. One also votes to protect the most vulnerable people in our society from folks who would do them