Why do you think that? There's nothing in the article that suggests she doesn't understand this. The majority of Americans still do have to vote, but the tenor of her article does not exclude it being a warning to those who have already voted as to the nature of what their vote actually means. It is not actually "advice" at all in regard to voting, but a sober description of reality. She's telling the American citizenry their vote is irrelevant. She's by a long way not the first to say so.

Caitlin's actual advice is to ignore the vote, the election, but to work at undermine propaganda and promote political activism in the community. Ultimately that's where political power always rests, tragically it almost always happens so late in the day that violence and mayhem become the necessary tools of dissent.

It's worth remembering Caitlin's advice here as we've debated Harris vs Trump on many occasions. I was shot down in flames by most of you by saying I'd prefer to see Harris as President than Trump, not because I though anything very different would happen, but that Trump, irrefutably, has a serious personality disorder and is mentally incompetent. No ordinary citizen would have Trump as leader of a local school board, or leader of any company that's not his own, or basically any position of authority in pretty well any human endeavour that you'd care to mention. I thought the risks of this were ultimately higher than the risk of mere ordinariness and inadequateness, . I may of course be wrong but we'll never ever know this, as we don't have a parallel planet on which to to do the experiment. The US has just recently got rid of one old and mentally incompetent president, the country now may vote in an another. I don't see that as an advance.

It also seems to me that too many here are forgetting Trump's record as President

Trying to ban TikTok, nepotism, oil pipeline, abandoning nuclear arms treaties, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. tax benefits to the uber rich, Steve Bannon appointment, wanted to impose a Muslim travel ban, fired his Attorney General, appoint right wing judges to the Supreme Court, claiming electoral fraud, whipping up a crowd to attack the Capitol, withdrew from Paris climate agreement, vaccines cause autism, his incompetent actually bizarre, handling of the Covid pandemic having previously scrapped the pandemic early warning system, presided over the us government's longest ever shut down, separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, got the police to spray protestors with tear gas for his bible photo op, giving pardons to his criminal associates, asked Georgi officials to rig the election, etc etc. Trump has a record - he is a repeat offender, a narcissist and an inveterate lier. . Why would anyone expect anything better next time around? .