Nicely done! And vote with your feet. Here’s how not voting can effect change.
In the USA, we are taught to vote, no matter what, and we are demonized if we don’t vote. That is an old superstition.
The core element in the voting sentiment is mathematically true: We are told that the more votes a candidate gets (“get out the vote!”), the better their chances of winning. True.
But guess what… the reverse is true, too.
The more votes a candidate DOESN’T get, the worse are their chances of winning.
Like, duh, right?
Not only this, but the more people who don’t vote, PERIOD, the more that increases the volatility of the voting system, and therefore decreases any one candidate’s chances of success.
If it’s an entire system that you despise, full of people you cannot in good conscience vote for, then you do have a viable third option: DON’T VOTE. But you have a responsibility that comes with that choice, too. You have to ensure that OTHERS don’t vote in that election, too.
If the government is full of scoundrels and bad choices, and only scoundrel candidates are knocking on the doors, then your responsibility as an American is to NOT VOTE FOR THAT GOVERNMENT!
