I keep hearing people I know who I thought genuinely cared for the people on the ragged edges of US society saying that they’re not going to vote for Harris. I wish they’d see voting as a thing we do *for each other* instead of something that speaks to your own self-centered opinion.

It’s just moral narcissism - the idea that how it makes you feel about yourself is the most important thing. It’s wildly, WILDLY selfish. And these are the same people who lecture others about privilege.

Wild.

People say I shouldn’t shame others for not voting, but fuck that. We have this one lever we get to pull. This one task. If you can’t make that bare minimum requirement to participate in a democracy, I have no goddamn respect for you. You’re not more morally pure for opting out, you’re just a petulant child.

Voting isn’t everything, but it’s the first thing. If you have this right that so many fought and bled for and you don’t use it, shame on you.

@fraying
This is something I never could, and probably never will, understand.

"I don't agree with anything he says, but she isn't quite aligned with my beliefs either, so I'm not going to vote!"
And I've noticed there are 2 separate and distinct types of people who do this - those who are well enough off that they will barely notice the hit to their livelihood that letting The Other Guy win will entail, at least at first, and those who will suffer the most.
And I dont get either of them.

@stuartb @fraying One is privilege and the other is fatalism.

There's also the third crew: the ones who think if things get horribly worse, then "complacent" public will have no choice but to fight in their bloody revolution. But seeing as how even a pandemic that killed a million plus due to malevolent mismanagement didn't trigger that, nothing else will, either.