When telling my voting friends that I can't in conscience vote, and that people who do vote unwittingly endorse killing as a way of settling disputes, I'm chided, denounced or damned for being a misguided purist, an addled idealist and a despicable ingrate who dishonors brave men who died in combat to keep democracy alive. How dare I not vote. I'd like to see some evidence that voting has made the U.S. government less militaristic and more humane. The record shows otherwise. As in every election cycle, patriotic calls have been heard across the land urging the citizenry to exercise the sacred right to vote.
Every vote counts, no candidate is perfect, vote for the lesser of two evils.
Such thinking failed to move W. E. B. DuBois, the black sociologist. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. Elections are charades for progress, marginal to the direct democracy of citizens getting involved personally and enduringly to create the conditions in which a just and peace-directed world can be created.