Why You Should Vote, Even if You Don't Believe in the System

Perhaps this is too little, too late with US 2018 mid-term elections less than a week away. Many people aren't registered to vote and that window is now closed. Except it isn't!!! Fifteen states, including my home state of California, offer some form of voter registration on election day (check here to see if you qualify). For those of you already registered you still have a couple of days to decide to vote or not.

There are reasons to not vote, sure. The system is controlled by a bunch of rich old white men, none of whom represent you or your ideas (it's completely possible that most of my readers are in fact rich old white men. I don't actually have demographic data to disprove this). The whole system is corrupted by money. There are only two viable political parties, evil and slightly little less evil. One vote doesn't matter. This definitely doesn't look like the representative democracy praised in history text books. You participation in a broken system makes you complicit in its existence. I get all those reasons. Well, maybe I don't get them, but I've at least heard them, and I think they're half-baked.

Did you?

But if these factors make you ponder, “OK, I could vote, but really, why should I?” then, lovely reader, do I have the perfect article in store for you. My reasons to vote, presented here and now, ad free, in the only format acceptable for conveying more than one piece of information on the internet, a list! Or a slideshow of one slide if you prefer to think about it that way.