I have seen a lot on DU, but advocating not voting sure jumps the shark

[stupidicus]

98. that's garbage

for starters, fear has nothing to do with it in any way, shape, or form.

Secondly, should the dems, ulike the repugs, decide to look at and remedy the causes for the lack or support, how then does that make valueless in terms of the objective sought?

ANd I'm not advocating for not voting, I'm merely defending the non-voter from your kind. The act of voting is nothing more for most than the selection of who and what you can bargain with and over. For all the act of voting or choosing not to it is merely an exercising or not of the same right. To say that those that choose to not support the likely many things that have turned them off about this pres and the dem party to bring us to the worst turnout in what, 72 years, are cowards, much less less than "righteous", is hilarious coming from you "moral" minority types.

The level of support for and pursuit of things like the TPP, NSA spying, etc, etc, etc, outta BHO and dems is enough to justify feeling an affront to ones "morality", but here you are demanding they abandon their principles because you have in whole or in part. They (the disenchanted on those grounds I'm exclusively championing here) have no more duty to support the party --or this country by extension according to your kind -- than they would to support any group or org they felt went to far astray.


ANd they aren't the ones couching this in terms of "moral righteousness", although they could merely by doing so by denouncing you in similar terms for voting for more wars, more spying, more income inequality, etc, etc, etc, on the dem watch. You certainly don't have the moral superiority and not a damn bit of defense of any of that, just a bunch of stone casting in an effort to evade your role as a voter for it.