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Originally Posted by roachboy
the idea that in american pseudo-democracy any particular vote represents "the will of the people" seems goofy to me as a simple function of the number of abstentions.
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I can't help but view abstentions as implicitly willing one's vote to whichever side shows up more often. I don't see the goofiness you see.
I also have a hard time seeing abstentions as a bad thing - abstractly, at least - as those would-be voters are more likely to be uninformed or badly informed, making the right or wrong decision on the flip of a coin for uniformly bad reasons. There should be more abstentions.