It’s funny. I get these survey e-mails all the time. Usually asking me about "local" or "statewide" issues. Often I suspect they’re for a political campaign – either by a candidate who’s doing research or else some organization that has some political stake.
I used to actually fill most of these out, thinking I was preforming some type of civic duty by doing so. But, not that I think of it, why should I be filling these surveys out?
If this wasn’t some fucked up, non-democracy, then these surveys would be actual elections in which I was voting. Participating in a democracy should and could be that easy. Even survey questions that are not simply "yes" or "no" could be used in a democratic voting process. For example what people’s preferences are on a scale. That could be used to implement actual policy.
That all presupposes that there actually was a democracy. But of course there isn’t. Why should I fill out these surveys? It’s not helping me and it’s not helping the country. Any organization or candidate who is not helping institute actual democracy in this catastrophically evil and broken plutocracy is an enemy.
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