By: Rose

In reply to Rose.

The suffragists’ movement is just one example, though. What about the civil rights activists who fought tooth and nail to eliminate racist poll taxes and “literacy” tests to allow people of color to vote? What about the people in other countries who still don’t have the right to vote and are laying their lives on the line for it – so they can get a system that’s probably even more flawed than ours is if they succeed?

I do think that acting like not voting is a “protest” (a pretty meaningless, ineffective one, in the long and short of things) you can make against the system, no matter how you phrase it, is taking your vote for granted to a certain degree. There are people around the world and throughout history who would love to have even our incredibly fucked-up system.