[nb4hnp]

>It's all you can do to have even the tiniest amount of influence.

That's just the thing, there wouldn't be a tiny or infinitesimal influence. It would be zero influence.

>Sure, your vote might not be worth much now, but that influence accumulates.

This makes no sense.

>Refusing to participate is not going to change anything, it's not going to fix the system.

Of course it won't fix anything, but at least I won't waste most of the day waiting in a line to mark a piece of paper that will change nothing.

>As to your first point: "I don't vote, because not enough people vote for what I want" is a self-defeating argument.

This is not what the parent poster said at all. It was mentioned that it's a 90% dominated by one of a two party system. Voting R would do nothing, since they already have the supermajority. Voting D wouldn't do anything, since one vote, even if it would tip over some kind of rounding mechanism, would still only bring the D vote to 11%.

>If you're unhappy with the current numbers, the very least you can do is make your tiny part of a percentage change.

Utterly pointless and a waste of time.

Don't drink the democracy kool-aid, folks. We're fucked and there's nothing that will stop it until we all get together and do something about it. And that's not happening soon either, so basically fuck everything.