@autolycos @stonekettle Asking for someone to “earn” your vote is a consumer model of voting. I.e., you’re going vote for whomever “sells” themselves better to you.

In my model of voting, we’re all participants in a shared decisionmaking process: do we go down the road of fascism, authoritarianism, and cronyism, or do we go in another direction? I can participate in that decision and register my preference between those two options, or I can decide I’m indifferent to the result and sit out.