From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
Not voting essentially gives someone else a blank they get to fill-in on your behalf—since you aren’t present to tell anyone exactly what your values are, what boils your blood and keeps you up at night, what matters most to you. Whatever message you imagine you’re sending by opting out, remains unspoken in your head—and you end up saying nothing.
If there’s any statement choosing not to vote makes, it’s “I don’t care if I count.”
Generations of people spent their entire lives here unseen and voiceless, millions of others have braved bruises and bullets for the right to speak, a right that you have been handed upon arrival here and now so casually decline.
Yes. Not voting isn’t a “statement” — it’s a form of surrender.
You can judge how important voting is from the lengths Republicans go to in order to stop the “wrong” people from doing it.
Good point. The only hope they seem to have of extending their hold on office is to keep the majority away from positions of power.