Martin Fowler

In the United States, we have midterm elections coming up. Many people aren’t interested in politics, or feel there is nobody worthwhile to vote for. If you’re an American inclined to skip voting in these midterms, I’d appreciate it if you read this appeal.

The United States is a stable democratic republic, and one of the luxuries of living in such a system is that many of us can mostly ignore its politics. There is a lot of intense noise in the party-political process, but the system contains guard-rails that keep that noise spilling into the everyday life of family, work, and recreation. But a cancer has taken hold within the American political system that’s threatening those guard rails, undermining the peaceful electoral process. This will lead to more instability in the coming years, interfering with the lives of those who’d rather not pay attention to party-political causes. Voting against

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