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Not voting because you don't like the choices is like jumping in front of a moving car to protest the lack of crosswalks, and then blaming your injuries on the city and the driver and the crosswalk gods instead of facing your own inability to deal with your own frustration level. The world keeps turning and there's still no crosswalk. Congrats.
I mean, tell that to the 50% that consistently don't vote and see what it changes. Protest abstention or not, our turnout is a sorry excuse for a democracy to begin with.
Focusing on this as a protest non-vote is your myopia. People who are disconnected and disillusioned by politics are not consciously deciding to not vote - it’s not important to them because the perception is that both sides don’t give a fuck about average people’s issues.
Those people are taking care of their kids, grabbing an extra shift at work to make ends meet, worried about if they can cover the next hospital bill/broken heater, etc If you cannot demonstrate to them that voting every 2-4 years actually improves their lives materially, they are going to continue to work towards improving their life without getting involved politically.
...so are you gonna keep coming up with analogies or start insisting Democrats actually work for the voters they're depending on? Because analogies didn't win you the general.
With the current two party system, voting seems more like picking whether you want to sit on the left or ride side of the train because one side has a nicer view and less aggressive billboards. And, depending on which side has more people sitting on it, they either pick a conductor that insists on maximum power at all times or one willing to use the brakes.
Either way, the tracks are going to the same destination. And we're currently approaching a station.