bee33 wrote:
Who gets elected has a profound effect on the lives of millions of people. This is indisputable, regardless of the imperfections that all candidates will have. Some are awful and others are much less awful, and that's quite plain. Voting is our responsibility toward our fellow citizens. It's letting down the most vulnerable people who will most be affected by bad policies to not vote.
If you feel it's your responsibility, you can vote. You have that right. You do not have the right to my vote. What is it that my one vote will do that your one vote isn't doing?
Regardless, nobody is getting my vote in this or any other election. My friend's pestering didn't change that. Nothing you've written here changes that. After the last several years of witnessing politics on social media, that bridge has not only been burned, the smoldering wreckage has been atomized.