Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
“When I was first sent to cover campaigns in 2004, a year in which 40% of eligible voters didn’t bother, I was troubled by the absence of non-voters in coverage. A Rolling Stone editor with whom I rarely worked rolled eyes and said, ‘We don’t cover them because they’re not part of the fucking story,’ which I instantly knew wasn’t true, but I was new and to my shame I didn’t say anything. … In the roughly twenty years since the act of not voting, or even just not really really caring about presidential politics, has been villainized. Now the emotionally healthy person, the one who has a life and isn’t consumed with fears about the Next Hitler, is assumed to harbor secret sympathies, as bad as the worst MAGAT. This is different from the old scam. Now the person who shrugs and says ‘Who cares?’ is called a liar.” (11/01/24)
https://www.racket.news/p/people-arent-garbage-partisan-politics