I am not going to urge you to vote.

I am simply going to express my opinion that anyone who does not vote at this election is a traitor to the Republic. And never knowingly will I shake hands with him or sit down to a meal with him. For, in the hour of gravest peril, he failed to do the only specific duty which is laid upon him as a citizen of this Republic. No one has a “duty” to be President, no one even has a “duty” to be a soldier until summoned by our Commander in Chief, but the humblest or laziest member of our society has a duty to vote.

Henry Luce, October 1940

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Is it cool if I voted but still consider myself a traitor to the Republic? Really not a fan of what the Republic has done these last centuries.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 hour ago

    The state already considers me a domestic terrorist for being a socialist, I owe “the Republic” jack shit. I want an end to the US Empire, not a perpetuation of it and the genocide it brings to the people of Cuba, Palestine, and the indigenous nations of the north American continent.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    1 hour ago

    I know folks who dont vote because they think its playing into the hand of the rich, and they would rather have a monarchy because its better than democracy. Wow.