Many ideas depend heavily on context and premises. On voting vs. not voting, attempting any kind of cost-benefit analysis presumes a link between a person’s vote and an effect on his life via the government’s measures or responses. There are those who think it’s worth it to vote libertarian, say, or to write in a name. This kind of cost-benefit calculation presumes business as usual, i.e., change occurring through government as the conveyor belt between the people’s votes and their welfare. I argue that the conveyor belt is not only frayed, ragged, but torn to shreds and no longer even … Continue reading It’s the Psychology!