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.
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.