alt Hacker NewsVoting works fine, people just don't do it very much.
People complain about their choices. Meanwhile, there's atrocious turnout in the primaries which determine those choices.
Voting works fine, people just don't do it very much.
People complain about their choices. Meanwhile, there's atrocious turnout in the primaries which determine those choices.
Agree. There's a direct line from Robert A Heinlein:
"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."
to the anonymous scholar who first said, probably as a joke:
"If violence didn't work you didn't use enough".
Whatever you think of voting and democracy, the alternatives are far more unpleasant. Vote every time, without fail.