To vote or not to vote

Marco Lupoi has collected and summed up a discussion going on on the Nòva100 mailing list.

Contributions about the subject ranged from explicit declarations about the vote to the desire to call themselves out, but passion is manifest – even when the desire for a better political landscape leads to abstention. [Luca Savioli, Roselina Salemi, Alessandro Germiniasi, Guido Vetere, Gianluca Salvatori, Francesco Morace…]

As for me, I think that not voting is giving up any chance to affect reality. It’s a mild medicine, but better than nothing.