Zeb LarsonI feel like I see a lot of older liberals talk about how voter apathy is the enemy and not gerrymandering or voter suppression. It fascinates me. Do they just not want to admit to themselves that the game is rigged? I vote in every single election, but I live in a heavily gerrymandered state that lives under one-party rule and have no illusions about how powerful my vote is.
Scott Jackson@Zeb_Larson I don't know that the two beliefs are mutually exclusive. Gerrymandering and voter suppression means we're voting on hard mode, which means the nonvotes that are actually the result of apathy hurt that much more.
It also makes absolutely no sense to be discouraged from voting specifically because someone is trying to suppress your vote. You have to try to overcome it. It is an integral part of a broad-based resistance to a system that wants you to capitulate to its desire to make you a nonvoter and treat you like cattle.