The NYT editors who greenlit a "Why I don't vote" essay (no link deserved) by a fascism-jealous theocrat to run on July 4th should be fired. That piece, which I immediately felt stupider for having read, made no useful points and only flaunted a privileged author's indifference from circumstances.
As a poll worker who has put in 15+ hour days to help people vote in a state with a long and dishonorable history of depriving the vote from Black people, I take profound personal offense to people saying voting is a waste of time.