Let’s pause here one second for a quick PSA from David Foster Wallace

Politics is not cool. Or rather, cool, interesting, alive people do not seem to be the ones who are drawn to the Political Process. Think back to the kids who were into running for student office. Now consider some of the 2000’s adult versions of these very same kids: men who aren’t even enough like human beings to dislike. It’s way easier to roll your eyes and not give a shit. You probably don’t want to hear about this, even.

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 are not dumb and are keenly aware that it’s in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay home doing one-hitters and watching MTV Spring Break on Primary Day.

By all means stay at home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote