Liberal Librarian: Our Duties as Citizens

[New Breed Leader]

Voting isn't supposed to be "fun". If you can get excited over a candidate with a special charisma who also has the good of the country at heart, that's great. But getting starbursts in your crotch shouldn't be the determinative factor in whether or not you vote. In a democracy, the citizen is sovereign. Not the president. Not the senator. The most powerful person in a democracy is the voter. From her all power flows, both for good and ill. If one doesn't vote, one cedes that power to someone else. They cede that power to someone who may not have their best interests at heart. One surrenders agency and the ability to determine one's own life. Voting isn't an inconvenience; in a democracy, it's the one secular sacral act. It's the act which renews the state, which keeps it functioning as a free polity. Without the vote, we may as well return to feudalism. The vote is the guarantor of legitimacy. Without it, and without its judicious exercise, we are nothing but a collection of atomized interests, never combining to perform communal acts of betterment.

Read the whole thing here: https://establishmentbar.blogspot.com/2022/06/france-scotus-january-6th-and-our.html

[2naSalit]

1. But, but, but...

We only want to be entertained! We don't want to do anything that isn't FUN!

As many Americans will tell you.

[New Breed Leader]

4. YEP

We've been numbed by reality TV and social media and care too much about what Kim Kardashian's wearing than what Mitch McConnell's stripping away from Americans today.

[dlk]

2. When someone doesn't vote, they're giving two votes to someone they don't agree with

And that would be Republicans working toward fascism.

[PunkinPi]

3. K&R