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I read it. I just don't buy your bullshit excuse for not voting. That's dumb. That's like the kind of thing I would've said when I was an edgy thirteen year old.
Hey, you're the one who won't get up off his lazy ass to go vote, not me. See what you're not getting is that voting is not about you "Supporting a corrupt system." It's about you protecting the people you love. You have told me that you don't give a shit enough to bother voting, so I must therefore come to the conclusion that there's nothing and nobody you love.
It tells me you don't care about justice, or the rule of law, or the economics of the downtrodden, or about giving people healthcare, or preserving the planet so they don't live in a polluted shithole. These are all things that have a direct effect on your life, and the life of your wife, daughter, and grandchild -and by your inaction you're complicit in allowing fascists to take power and create the policies governing these things. Like I said, who's side are you on? Apparently you're not even on your own family's side.
Hey I'm not sorry you got offended. Sounds like this is the first time anyone's ever bother to tell you the truth about yourself.
The great thing about this country is that nobody forces you to do anything. Feel free to sit everything out if that satisfies whatever stupid corrupt moral requirements you've created for yourself. Just don't try to pretend that you actually care about your country, your family, or anyone else if you can't even bother to show up every four years to do the absolute minimum required to keep this country free.
See, if you would've just said this all in the beginning we could've avoided all this. Because it sounded to me - and to any other rational person reading your post - that you were making excuses for not voting. That's why I bolded the text "No, I didn't say I did." You did not say you voted, so how am I supposed to know you did? Am I supposed to read your mind?
Still, it seems a bit like you're still not understanding how important it actually is, so I refuse to apologize. I stand by every word, and I use this as my rationale:
When one of the candidates is a fascist who's going to hurt people and destroy democracy, then not voting against them kinda is a reflection on your character. It shows you don't care enough about other people.
I like how I'm the fascist, when I'm the one actually doing something to try and stop fascists and not the one making excuses for those who didn't