Go ahead, ‘throw away’ your vote

By John Lewinski

Published September 29, 2024 6:00am ET

You’ll find no shortage of glib quotes pitting the democratic responsibility of voting against the futile nature of elections between rival sociopaths.

My favorite concise summation of the electoral paradox came from the British humor and sci-fi writer Douglas Adams: “It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.”