I’m not trying to make a statement for one versus the other, I’m trying to convince you to vote at all.

appreciated

But, if you haven’t voted, they have no clue what platform you support or what policies they can adopt to win you over next time.

I get what you are saying, but I’m not yet convinced. You did make a dent, though. I’ll let it percolate a while.

They look at who else got votes, and investigate what their platform was. They realize they could co-opt some of those ideas to try and get some of those voters next time.

I spent 20 years voting like that and the democrats have utterly failed to listen to anything other than the social justice issues.

The republicans are fundamentally right about some things (this is a democratic REPUBLIC, afterall) but so fundamentally wrong about other things, that they similarly failed to listen to.

So now, I’m mostly content being in the “no one is listening to me” category.

edit: fwiw, i do occasionally write to representatives about topics that i am knowledgeable about