This thread unpacks the questionable motives of the author whose guest essay about not voting was published in the NYT today (cool timing, guys! Very patriotic!)
I don't see the point of choosing to publish such a view in a country with comparatively low turnout www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
How many times does Matthew Walther get to publish his essay about why he doesn't vote in a prominent outlet? Because two seems like too many
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wow sure is weird how the NYT keeps finding the perspectives of good ol' salt-of-the-Earth plain Americans to echo right wing talking points only to have it instantly found out that Mr or Mrs J Q Public was local head of Uptight Loudmouth Nazis for the Republican Party chair or donor etc
According to someone with access to a MI voter file... he votes (in 2020 & 2022). Since it's public record (just harder or easier to get the information for free depending on the state) it's weird that he staked a claim to against something that someone can just go and look up and see if he did.
