Reply #67: Not advocating passivity at all

[Goldstein1984]

Withholding a vote is not passivity, except from the perspective of people who rely on but don't earn that vote.

A vote that isn't guaranteed is a vote that has to be earned. A guaranteed vote requires no effort.

I absolutely reject the lesser-of-two-terminal-diseases model of voting. I would never advocate that a woman has no choice but to choose between the less abusive of two abusive boyfriends, and I wouldn't expect a voter to choose between the less compromised of two parties.

There is an alternative to two unrepresentative parties for democratically minded citizens.

Voting a party ticket is the ultimate in passivity. It doesn't even require the tossing of a coin.