Kevin Geary
I’m an entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and photographer.
Throwing away your vote on a message no one will hear, and which will change no outcome, is sometimes presented as ‘voting your conscience’, but that’s got it exactly backwards; your conscience is what keeps you from doing things that feel good to you but hurt other people. Citizens who vote for third-party candidates, write-in candidates, or nobody aren’t voting their conscience, they are voting their ego, unable to accept that a system they find personally disheartening actually applies to them.
There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Vote
Clay Shirky
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This is not an argument for participating. Not voting is the act of a principled person who refuses to endorse an immoral, absurd system. Whether or not that changes anything is irrelevant. But, historically, you cannot make the argument that voting for the lesser of two evils has any benefit whatsoever either. Doing that for decades has resulted in the two worst candidates in the history of the U.S. running against each other. Sorry, but this article is hogwash.
