Hubby and I had that conversation before the election. I keep voting but seriously wonder why. He said so you still have the right to complain and you cancel out someone else’s vote. Since when does that matter? I am at the point where I despise both parties. There are very few people who actually deserve my vote.
I quit voting my last 15 years living in California, before retiring to Tennessee after the California Covid shut down.
I view voting as a mandatory obligation stemming from my God-given Rights codified in the US Constituional.
Generally, voting is a mandatory duty whether I want to do it or not.
That said, I quit voting my last 2 decades in California. It was futile. I lost every election for a candidate or an issue and when I won, it was just very incidental to what the Democrats wanted, such as a bond issued for a new dam, drinking water or to care for military Veterans. Some such thing that usually wins with 95% of the vote.
Otherwise, I lost continually because my vote was swamped by the Democrats. It became a futile, non-sensical demonstration of duty beating my head against the brick wall of the Democrat monopoly.
So I have no regret exercising the wisdom to quit voting my last 15 years in California. I came to realize it was just a form of mild mental retardation to think a conservative’s vote has any influence whatsoever in California local or statewide elections.
Here in Tennessee, it is the exact opposite. As fast as Leftists are moving to the Nashville area and flipping that city Socialist, the rest of Tennessee state is seeing a much larger influx of disgruntled conservatives fleeing the oppression of blue states.
Tennessee is getting redder. My vote counts here. Here in TN, it is the Democrats who are voting in complete futility, thinking their vote has any influence here at all. I really wish they would all move to California.