L. J. HOLMAN
It is an old and tired truism: “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain.” The idea supposedly is that voting is a privilege, a price one pays to live in the land of the free, and so integral to the democratic process that not voting is somehow un-American, that not voting means not participating (the implication is that one doesn’t WANT to participate) in our democracy, and therefore whatever happens in that democracy is outside the non-voter’s rights and privileges—but can this really be correct?
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