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this has got to be satire. if not by the author then by someone further up the masthead. there are a lot of ways to frame voting abstention in a system w/ an electoral college and this has got to be the dumbest way possible. it's just too cute by half.
Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...
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Not satire. He’s a republican, anti abortion and pro authoritarianism. He’s doing it for a reason and the nytimes is helping him.
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They're celebrating the holiday by running a declaration of Independence from Democracy.
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it's not even a coherent critique. it's something a philosophy department, brain-addled stoner would come up with. there's a trenchant critique to be made of a system where 49% of the votes don't matter, but this guy is just question-begging.