How a non-voter is in one of the most insulted cohort in Ireland

The reality is that not voting has no dire consequences. Nobody dies. Nobody goes to jail. Nobody gets fined.

And nobody cancels the next election. If voting is all that important, you’d think failure to do it would cause severe problems, but it doesn’t.

Now, here’s the thing. I didn’t vote in the referendum. Either way. On either proposition. I just didn’t vote. I confess to this from a defensive crouch, having been brought up to believe that voting wasn’t even a virtue; it was an essential aspect of self-respect, like cleaning your teeth.