Voting sends a voice to our representatives. They listen so they can help build America and if we don't vote, we cannot complain on how our politicians represent us. All of these points are good, true and valid. However, there are dangers of thinking so commonly. Common thinking allows us to become unconcerned.
Voting becomes mundane and our right to vote is taken for granted.
Then if we don't vote, democracy dies. If more of us knew the actual etymological semantics of our words, then more of us would be more intelligible and we'd have a better understanding of what we are saying. Thus, we would vote and really understand what voting is and what it means to democracy. Our word democracy can be analyzed to find its true meaning. The English word voting comes from the Latin word votare.