Thank you for articulating a point which I feel very strongly about. While many people feel that yanks are slack voters (with their roughly a 1/3 or less of people who bother to exercise their right to vote) I was raised there and that's where I developed my fervour for voting. :-) Donkey voters or abstainers -- in the voting sense ;-) -- trouble me as they're a symptom of the democratic system not working [why are they feeling alienated from the political process?] And whether they admit it or not, informal voters effectively further the status quo, which seems counterproductive from the informal voters point of view, since the status quo is presumably what alienated them from voting in the first place...
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While many people feel that yanks are slack voters (with their roughly a 1/3 or less of people who bother to exercise their right to vote) I was raised there and that's where I developed my fervour for voting.
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Donkey voters or abstainers -- in the voting sense ;-) -- trouble me as they're a symptom of the democratic system not working [why are they feeling alienated from the political process?] And whether they admit it or not, informal voters effectively further the status quo, which seems counterproductive from the informal voters point of view, since the status quo is presumably what alienated them from voting in the first place...