Because it's not a voting strategy? Politics isn't voting. Personally, I don't see accelerationism as even a proactive strategy either, so much as preparedness to take maximum advantage of moments when capitalism stumbles, as it will.
Fine, replace voting with other actions. If you help people, things remain tolerable so that's right out. Everyone not working hard enough to fix things deserves whatever they get until they do better. This is just bootstraps for politics.
Helping your allies organise and survive is way better at increasing your societal clout than spitting on them and blaming them for not overthrowing the status quo. Also, because they don't have to watch you tighten any thumbscrews, they don't hate and resent you. Explaining to people why things are bad and how to fix them accomplishes the same realization that things are bad and need to be fixed without crushing the soul out of your activism.
To be clear, as I've repeated many times, I don't advocate voting for Trump, and I don't advocate for actively making things worse. I agree with organizing and helping people however you can. Do what you can do as an individual or with your local organizations to make things better. That is far more meaningful in this political environment than any vote.
But I just don't stand for delusion regarding the nature of the D vs R routine or lesser evilism. I don't intend to shame anyone for feeling like they have to vote for Biden. I understand the immense pressure of the situation, and the propaganda machine on top of it. I just want to make sure people actually understand who they're voting for and the ultimate nature of the game. I want to smash the lens of aesthetics so that real actions and consequences can be seen clearly. Spite, punishment, or some grand strategy to make the world worse so it can be made better afterwards have nothing to do with it. I just want things to be seen for what they obviously are. And I actually do appreciate that Trump is so easily seen by so many for what he really is. It's goddamn refreshing, for everything else that's goddamn horrible. Like yeah, Trump has blood on his hands. Nothing wrong with stating that. But when it's used as an argument to suggest that someone else who technically has far more blood on their hands is better... I'm going to have some words. Let's not fuck around. Let's really understand this thing and not delude ourselves.
And for me, personally, putting this into practice makes me unable to vote for Biden (unless there is some real meat behind that HR1 bill).
Representative democracy is broken because people don't vote for candidates who represent them. Period. If you never vote for a candidate who represents you, then you will never be represented. This is
tautological. The very basic idea of representative democracy is that you vote people into office who represent your interests so that you don't get screwed. If you vote for people who don't represent your interests, then you are actively sabotaging that system, whether you believe it's for immediately good reasons or not.
There will always be a narrative to every single election that the other guy is so bad and the stakes are so high that the time just isn't right to actually vote the way voting is supposed to work. Every time. Forever. I've heard it every election my whole adult life, and it goes farther back than any of us.
The system is so broken today because our parents and grandparents and great grandparents broke representative democracy by playing this game. And the next generation will face an even more broken system, because we're just continuing on doing the same thing as our predecessors. Every single time we vote this way, we actively contribute to the entire system being less representative of our interests, and unsurprisingly every next election as a result gives us worse candidates.
And I understand all the arguments. I know how it looks pragmatic in the now. But it's deal-with-the-devil logic. Bargain to avert a crisis now. Pay even more dearly later.