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"They're trying to stop people voting because voting doesn't matter!" It doesn't take much examination to realize how nonsensical "both sides" talking points are.
Like if you rationally examine things its clear voting does matter, just not as much as people are lead to believe.
Edit: as an analogy, voting is like the down payment on democracy. If you want real democracy you need strikes and organizing etc which is the bulk of the payments.
Anyone saying voting will fix nothing is lying. Anyone saying voting alone will fix anything is lying.
I mean, if politicians that demonstrated themselves to be corrupt regularly lost their elections then voting would be enough. Americans spent decades electing and re-electing the worst people imaginable, though, so now more than that is needed to fix things.
Battling corruption is something that never stops the second people go to sleep it continues unabated. Its not a war you can win, its an endless battle.
Democracy is first about making demands and unless we want somebody telling politicians our needs on behalf of us (almost always a corporation or the wealthy trying to do this) just voting and then going to sleep is a recipe for corruption. Its how we got here.
You have to elect politicians AND make demands of them, else the squeaky billionaire gets the grease.