LogFAQs > #965261146

I mean, "go vote" isn't exactly said in a vacuum. It's always said in the context of "Hey, you don't like this thing that's happening? Go vote; vote on issues, get people elected who will fix it."

I'm not talking about things like this. I'm talking about people who literally just say to "go vote", without any qualifiers, or seemingly any reason behind it other than "higher voter turnout = better, somehow". And I've seen many, many people who do this at around just about every sort of big election time.

Just saying "vote for the people who will fix X" means fuck all to a non-voter. Why would you expect someone who hasn't been or isn't voting (presumably the target audience of the "go vote" people; as the people who already are voting obviously wouldn't need the encouragement) to magically know who those people might be?

Besides, it's been extraordinarily well documented that Republicans consistently do better when more people DON'T vote, so... yeah, even just "go vote" in a vacuum statistically favors one side even all on its own.

Valid point