Pet peeve of the day: self righteous voters. No I did not vote today, and I keep seeing these Facebook and Twitter status updates that seem to imply this feeling of superiority to which voters subscribe in the way in which they look down on me and all of the other non voters. There are a number of trite statements that many of these people like to make:
“If you don’t vote, you can’t complain.” I think part of why that statement bothers me is because when I hear it, it’s always with this arrogant tone, as if I’ve never heard anybody say that before. (more…)
