Ritual Magic
Nov. 5th, 2024 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI have gone and engaged in my favorite bit of ritual magic -- that is, going out to vote.
It is almost certainly an exercise in futility on my part. The party that controls my state government has gerrymandered all of the districts to help make sure that my vote means nothing. They even run ads for their "favorite" member of the opposing party during primary season for state-wide offices to help convince primary voters to select the weakest possible candidate for the general election. I am sorry to say that this strategy works, because they will just keep on doing it until it no longer does.
But I vote anyway, because it is ritual magic. If I don't vote, then none of the other people who might agree with me will vote either. And if *they* don't vote, others won't vote, and the day when voting might no longer be futile will recede further and further into the future.
I voted.
Because I believe in magic.
It is almost certainly an exercise in futility on my part. The party that controls my state government has gerrymandered all of the districts to help make sure that my vote means nothing. They even run ads for their "favorite" member of the opposing party during primary season for state-wide offices to help convince primary voters to select the weakest possible candidate for the general election. I am sorry to say that this strategy works, because they will just keep on doing it until it no longer does.
But I vote anyway, because it is ritual magic. If I don't vote, then none of the other people who might agree with me will vote either. And if *they* don't vote, others won't vote, and the day when voting might no longer be futile will recede further and further into the future.
I voted.
Because I believe in magic.