My partner didn't vote, and I'm low key furious.

Voting does literally nothing. Our system is designed so that an individual vote does not matter. State and federal elections have never been decided by a single vote.

I think it's excessively self important to pretend like you voting is somehow this huge impact on the political sphere. It isn't. And yeah, "What if everyone thought that way" is a stupid argument also because everyone DOESN'T think that way.

You are projecting on him. You attach some kind of contribution to your vote so you think, "How dare he not make a difference like I did". But you didn't make a difference. Whether you had voted or not and whether he voted or not would not change the outcome of the election.

I can get frustration at general demographics not voting like young people or college kids. But getting angry at an INDIVIDUAL? It's absurd. He literally has no control over the results. If he listened to you and voted, the result would be the same.

Stop pretending like voting is actually doing something. It's not. It's the bare minimum and it really only affects local elections. I vote every year. I don't have the balls to be self important enough to get mad at anyone else who doesn't have the time or energy to get educated on who's on the ballet and what they stand for.

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