Why is Voting with Your Feet Important in the USA?
Because it helps increase your political power.
Compared to other democracies, a rather low number of voters shows up during the most important elections in the USA. The voter turnout drops even more when elections are not that important, with Denton, Maryland, holding the record of just five percent of the voters showing up for their municipal elections.
Voting is important, most people would agree. Yet when the folks in Washington behave more like the Wizard of Oz, then people have learned that the music may change with every elections, but the new tune is already familiar.
When there are just two parties, then voting is not all that important. Much more important is being able to adjust quickly to the return of the music that got booted out last time, but is in fashion once again this time.
Being able to vote with your feet, that is a real survival skill. When Democrats ruin your free-wheeling life, then pack up your things and go to Republican-run states. When Republicans refuse to spend money on beneficial aspects for society, then clear out your place and move to Democrat-run states.
With your priorities set, you don’t have to vote. You just need to know where to dance your dance, and let the chips fall where they may.
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Recreating your own surroundings in the way you like it — voting with your feet — appears a clear benefit. Yet don’t be mistaken. While both parties pull society apart, so does your move to find the best fit for your life and your loved ones.
The best places become either too expensive to live for people with ordinary incomes, or they are so far removed that the Good Life becomes a fully car-dependent and car-occupied experience. The right fit is yet again one step removed.
Red and Blue do not show the full picture, and once the dance got started, it is hard to roll back society to its original ideals of We The People.
With red and blue dominating, folks will adjust themselves to their most favorite outcome. Yet when the real colors are shown, folks would see that their ideal location is far from the ideal they had in mind.
Nations with multiple colors should not be seen as perfect societies. They are simply better at delivering what society wants and needs. The true colors are pronounced. The political discussions are real. The compromises are good for society as a whole.
Fewer voters will vote with their feet in these full-color democracies because their society was made in their ideal, constantly upgraded to their ideal, right where they live. Some will disagree and then vote with their feet, going elsewhere. Yet most will stay and vote for what they want to have in place.
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Conclusion is that the two-party system ánd voting with your feet still pulls people apart, whereas democracy is meant to be the communal area where the most important political decisions for society are made.
When red and blue are all you can choose, then the political decisions will end up tearing society apart — something nobody is waiting for.
Democracy is more than red and blue. Democracy is freedom and provides all voters their empowerment.
