podfish
06-06-2016, 12:41 PM
.. from a pseudonymist commenter on another site. But it's worth sharing:
A lot of people are confused by voting. Voting seems a lot like an opinion poll. " What do you feel about this? How do you feel about that? What's your favorite color?" Voting is not an opinion poll. It's not an expression of pleasure or displeasure. It's a struggle for control of the wheel of the bus you are trapped in that is hurtling towards a fork in the road at 70 mph.
A lot of people are confused by voting. Voting seems a lot like an opinion poll. " What do you feel about this? How do you feel about that? What's your favorite color?" Voting is not an opinion poll. It's not an expression of pleasure or displeasure. It's a struggle for control of the wheel of the bus you are trapped in that is hurtling towards a fork in the road at 70 mph.