Not-voting may be a form of protest from a philosophical standpoint, but it's an objectively awful one from a practical standpoint, since the political mechanis

Not-voting may be a form of protest from a philosophical standpoint, but it's an objectively awful one from a practical standpoint, since the political mechanism in place to affect change is precisely through the act of voting. It's like trying to affect evolutionary change by abstaining from sex. You'll be successful... in removing yourself from the equation.