COMMENT | Not voting is an irrational option

“By all means, stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: You either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard's vote.”

- David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!

COMMENT | What I disdain about people not wanting to vote for whatever reasons, is that all over the world people are fighting and dying, to get a fairer vote or to even get to vote at all, and here in Malaysia people do not vote or don’t want to.

Anecdotally speaking, the people who say they do not want to vote usually are comfortable urbanites.

I get it, I really do. All evidence from partisan fervour to policy decisions carried out by Umno/Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional point to the reality that their voting bases are more comfortable supporting autocratic ideas most often cloaked in pragmatism rather than democratic ones.

So, if you actually believe in democratic ideas, all you see is Harapan falling into the pit that the..