I just realized the fundamental disconnect for people who think they can “boycott” voting:
People who threaten to withhold their vote are thinking of the government like a business. If you don’t like what a business is doing, you can refuse to shop there, and that hurts them.
But your government is not a business, no matter how much the GOP tries to pretend it is, and refusing to participate doesn’t hurt it. If you refuse to vote, you still have to live under that government. I know we’re all fundamentally broken by late-stage capitalism, but you get that you can’t “Well, you just lost a customer” this one, right? YOU AREN’T A CUSTOMER.
Refusing to vote isn’t like refusing to buy McDonald’s. It’s like walking into a McDonald’s, handing the cashier $20 (because you still gotta pay taxes whether you vote or not), and saying “Surprise me.”
(Oh and during this particular trip, one of the two McDonald’s options is maybe not your favorite food, and the other is deadly poison.)
In case anyone needed a reminder that most of the people urging you not to vote are trolls.
