Fedaphobia

In states that do not use counting methods approved by the United Nations, voting provides legitimacy to ongoing multi-decade scams.

If the vote counting is illegitimate, should one vote for the better candidate anyway? This is an intensely debated thing over history in many countries.

Solving that, then voting is like you describe.

There are many layers to just how wrong voting is in the USA. And many of these scams, and the toleration of them, definitely affects reforms in unrelated areas other than the direct elections

Like many things in life, it gets complicated based on where you are at, what you believe, and personality.

If it’s important to you, then vote.

If you feel like your vote counts, vote.

If it is a small town election and the ballots are counted by people in the town, then vote.

For everything else, it’s shades of gray

I’ve think voting in the USA is a faith driven social event, mixed with a mentality of watching sports.

It’s like a purification ritual , and is a descendant of the big tent Christian rivivals seen in the 1800s.

“Have you been saved” and “have you voted” are inflected the same ways in speech patterns.

Edit typo

It always is. Which is perhaps why the views should be ignored but their impacts on the majority of the people, if implemented, could be measured or extrapolated. And I would not like to measure things that vary between nations like trade or standards of living.

I will watch the video, I am currently wondering if I could use just three values, each corresponding to a color (red, blue green), so that generates an rgb color. I would find it easy to see a colored square next to any movement or organization.

Perhaps the first is how socialist (red scale), the second is how free ( blue scale) and the third is how centralized power would be (green scale). 0-255 each value

Edit: But I think the three variables would need to be chosen more carefully to be truly independent of each other. Too much interdependence between socialism and freedom for example

Is there a link that I can learn more? While I know the American version of the political compass is very broken, I still hope to have a universal gradient to measure all countries and movements

I think reading reactions to his death is a very good way to measure political compasses of a publication.

Not just to find those which are obviously far right; but to see how the non fascists ones are changing