Am I completely retarded for not voting? Does anyone else here also feel its little more than an insulting trick to invert the direction of how power works? Do we really choose and have control over who rules us? Or is it all a trick to appease us and make us think we're free and hold power over government? Does power really go up the pyramid, and not down?
I understand there is a small window of issues that may differ from candidate to candidate, and see some value in participating in local politics, but at this federal level I just can't shake the thought that its just an offensive illusion. Whatever issues we can vote in or out, I think its extremely narrow and the rest will just go on as scheduled. Honestly, It would feel demeaning and dishonest if I were to go play a game I believed was rigged and fooling me, go vote for some lesser of 2 evils but knowing the guy is still a puppet corrupt sociopath politician. I just can't do it, but often take a lot of flack for it.