Comment below not intended as direct rebuttal to parent comment. It is just a relevant riff on the tired if you don't vote, don't complain BS. Soap box mode =

Comment below not intended as direct rebuttal to parent comment. It is just a relevant riff on the tired if you don't vote, don't complain BS. Soap box mode = 1 Yes you do get to complain same as anyone does whether you or anyone voted or not. Never let anyone tell you otherwise. In the US, voting is not mandatory. Casting voting as a condition of redressing ones grievances with government is actually just a psyops version of manufactured consent. If you are inclined to consent, and you feel a vote is worth casting, by all means vote! Maybe you think the whole thing lacks legitimacy? And you want to vote indie or third party or maybe even participate in ratfucking by voting for the very worst candidate a given party could get stuck with? By all means vote. Otherwise you are not required to vote and not voting is just fine. You remain a citizen. The Constitution still applies and all that stuff we know and expect is exactly the same whether we vote or not. Encouraging others to vote for many other reasons is fine too. Don't get me wrong there. I am very specifically calling out the idea of ones participation in this US society being predicated on a vote. That is just not true, and I really dislike advocacy rooted in falsehoods like this kind of advocacy always is. Soap box mode = 0 Maybe I will take a look at this library myself!