Nobody is obligated to vote and there's a strong case to be made that not voting IS the best moral and strategic option. Even within the framework of liberalism, anybody telling you voting Biden is harm reduction is "moving the goalposts!" Let's break it down to basics:
What is a democracy? What is a vote?
A democracy is a system where a majority elects a candidate to represent them and consents to be governed by that candidate with their vote.
(To contrast, in a monarchy, the claim to legitimacy is derived from a divine right to rule. Nobody explicitly consents. Right to rule is justified by a vague tautological appeal to "natural right," or a "mandate from heaven," or something along those lines.)
A vote is the symbolic act of voluntarily giving your consent. If you do not consent to be governed by any of the available candidates, you should not vote. It's as simple as that.
Nobody is obligated to vote and there's a strong case to be made that not voting IS the best moral and strategic option. Even within the framework of liberalism, anybody telling you voting Biden is harm reduction is "moving the goalposts!" Let's break it down to basics:
What is a democracy? What is a vote?
A democracy is a system where a majority elects a candidate to represent them and consents to be governed by that candidate with their vote.
(To contrast, in a monarchy, the claim to legitimacy is derived from a divine right to rule. Nobody explicitly consents. Right to rule is justified by a vague tautological appeal to "natural right," or a "mandate from heaven," or something along those lines.)
A vote is the symbolic act of voluntarily giving your consent. If you do not consent to be governed by any of the available candidates, you should not vote. It's as simple as that.