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In response to Darren McVey’s Oct. 28 “Everyone can vote this election, not everyone should” column, as a fellow non-voter (though for different reasons), I’d like to thank you for raising the B.S. flag on the idea that those who don’t vote can’t complain.
If anything, those who do vote have accepted the legitimacy of the electoral process, have implicitly agreed to be bound by the results, and don’t have much moral high-ground from which to complain about that system.
Of course, we do all have the right to complain, as you pointed out. I’d also like to thank you and let you know that you aren’t alone in wanting to decrease the franchise. Alexis de Tocqueville said that the American republic would endure until Congress learned it can bribe the people with their own money.
Our current system of interest-group politics has shown the truth of this 19th century wisdom.
By making the franchise universal, we have only encouraged more people to fight for a piece of the plundered pie, when we ought to be removing the government’s ability to steal from one group and give to another.
-Corey Cagle,
Senior political science major
