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Your vote is sending a signal to future elections. If Ohio has a 20-point red margin, it’s unlikely to get any attention from blue candidates. If it has a 5% margin, that changes, and suddenly the next campaign considers spending time & money to try and move the needle.
Remember the old Roman adage: “you’re not defeated until you admit defeat”. If you don’t vote: you’ve lost. If you vote, you might still lose that election but there’s a better chance to win in the future.
The fact that everything was a dream was kind of the point for Alice in Wonderland… no? It wasn’t a twist at the end, it was clear she was descending into a dream as she followed the white rabbit. It was all about how dreams don’t have to make sense.