Well, most people feel disenfranchised and disengaged from the system. When people tell you that their vote doesn’t matter, they mean very literally that it feels to them that they have no control over the system. It’s just this thing out there that is unresponsive to their wants and needs, and they just have to deal with it. Is it any wonder that people don’t feel a civic duty?
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Well, most people feel disenfranchised and disengaged from the system. When people tell you that their vote doesn’t matter, they mean very literally that it feels to them that they have no control over the system. It’s just this thing out there that is unresponsive to their wants and needs, and they just have to deal with it. Is it any wonder that people don’t feel a civic duty?
For sure. I understand how people feel, and how that affects their investment, but feelings and duty are exclusive.
Duty: something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation
Taking civic duty seriously means recognizing and fulfilling one’s obligation, regardless of one’s own investment in the responsibility.
For example, I was nauseated casting my vote for Hillary in 2016 after what she and the DNC did to Bernie. I fulfilled my duty, albeit reluctantly.