TimmyDeanSausage

I mostly agree with you. My point was, I think you get a pass if you’re a wage slave. Some people work 12+ hours a day and have a hard time making time for anything outside of their hardcore work schedules. There’s a level of poverty that is basically crippling. People in that situation shouldn’t be looked down on because they don’t have the privilege to participate in things that don’t really benefit them anyways.

I completely agree that, if you don’t vote, you don’t get to complain. That goes for the group I mentioned above as well.

Yeah! Also, the various voter suppression tactics, gerrymandering, two party system, majority of elected politicians being in the pocket of moneyed interests, working class people being too overworked to want to bother with interacting with a system that consistently does very little for them… I mean, I vote in every local/national election, even when it’s just ballot measures, and I’m disappointed when people I know don’t/ can’t vote, but I also can understand why people with difficult situations don’t/ can’t vote.

My one exception is people that didn’t vote in the '24 presidential election to punish democratic leadership. Those people intentionally chose fascism and chaos, hand in hand with the maga crowd.