>>Think for a moment about who doesn't vote. Think for a moment about
>>in whose interest it is that so many people abstain. Think about
>>whose interest it is to denigrate pleas for higher participation as
>>"elementary school civics."
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>The lower your income, the less likely you are to vote. Either the
>abstainers are very happy with things as they are, and so leave the
>choice of our rulers to their betters, or they think the choices on
>offer suck, and it doesn't make a difference which stooge of the
>status quo wins. Which do you think it is?
If you follow the wisdom of wealth as disposable time then it's the wealthy that are not voting. It's the impoverished who are flocking to the polls.