I tend to vote, since it’s a minimal effort that can contribute to harm reduction around the margins, but I’m under no illusions about its importance or efficacy. 

The “just vote harder” crowd, though, needs to grapple with the fact that people do vote quite hard and still see few benefits, if any. Majorities of US voters have elected democrats to the presidency in 7 of the 8 past elections, but have only held the presidency for 5 of the last 8 terms. If things had gone a bit differently in late 2020 and early 2021, the republican might have successfully couped his way into turning that into 4 out of 8.

Even setting aside that both the democrats and republicans are parties of capital, securing a majority of the vote is still not a particularly efficacious way of electing your preferred candidate. Under these conditions—knowing that even if you do vote really hard and win the election but still lose the election—what do the “just vote harder” folks propose to motivate people? 

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I vote even though it's literally pointless. I vote against parties that support the two-party-fitup, and yet it's always one of the two parties in the fit-up that win.

Voting can't work. Between them they fixed it so that it can't work.