Voting is the adult version of writing a letter to Santa Claus!

Carmela
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:50:58 +0000
Political Ideologies

Voting is sold as power, but functions more like wish-casting: you scribble hopes onto a piece of paper, drop it into a symbolic box, and trust a distant authority to decide whether you’ve been “good” enough to deserve results. Like letters to Santa, most of them are politely ignored, while a few get answered just enough to keep the myth alive. It’s not democracy—it’s ritualized optimism designed to make people feel heard while real decisions happen somewhere else.

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