I'd like to complain about the prisons and mental hospitals, complain them right out of existence. I won't argue that some people choose to work within the state for reform, and some of the work they do is very much a good thing. I also won't tolerate being told working withing the state, on the state's terms, is the only way to do good things. Voting' in PDX and South Africa this year are about as similar as eating a light snack before going out with friends, and eating for the first time after starving for fifty years. The comparison is false.
People die for all kinds of things, and for nothing at all.
Guilt is not part of my politics and the weakest tool against me. All the reasons I've never voted are still meaningful to me. All the arguments for voting are still unconvincing to me. I'll tell them not to do a lot of things, in fact. And all I can feel about it is ashamed and angry.