R.I.P. David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

[palshife_sakura]

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home

Comments

[genmaicha]

That's worth thinking about.

[kasatka]

What if you vote for a third party?

[palshife_sakura]

I think that's basically what he was getting at. Voting for a third party is making you an agent of change, rather than someone tacitly enabling the status quo.