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I'm not really sure what your question is. here are some of my thoughts on voting.
voting always occurs within a framework of election systems, offices, parties, and candidates. the incentives to vote for a neoliberal party against a fascist one in a bourgeois election are very different from, say, voting to form a union at your workshop or apartment building, or a delegate to a workers council, or a referendum.
that is to say, one never votes in a vacuum. in a liberal capitalist democracy one must choose among candidates, one cannot vote directly to change the type of democracy one has. likewise, only a small part of a population might actively support an insurrection or a strike which brings down a given regime, but when a new political reality with new systems of elections, then a majority of people--the same people who previously voted for neoliberal candidates --might vote for entirely different people and programs.
if we could choose our political institutions from inside an ahistorical vacuum, wherein not just the candidates but the type of elections and the type of economy and the type of people we ourselves will be are all undetermined, which is necessarily a political theological thought expiriment, we might be in a position to launch a democratic government by democratic means. but we live in a material, historical realm wherein our choices are proscribed beyond a narrow list of approved electoral options and a wider list of extra-electoral political tactics, like strikes and violence and so on.
democracy is not simply when people vote. democracy is a material situation in the world wherein the large part of the people are in a position to direct the course of their lives individually and collectively, to author their own kind of society, as opposed to picking between the options pre-selected by the ruling class. one cannot vote such a situation into existence unless it's already in place; absent such a framework of always already being democratic, creating a democracy means actively changing the kind of world we live in to make democratic processes possible and viable.
that's all petty abstract and I am still struggling to articulate this to myself, but maybe it's helpful to someone.
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Today:
Implement changes to Appeal
Scrapbook
Eat toast
Play with the angels
Finish penultimate chapter of Palace of Dreams
Rest before bedtime