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I'm curious.
Is it a red flag if a man does not vote or is it simply a preference that you want your partner to participate in elections?
Maybe the red flag is a man who complains about something but doesn't try to change anything, and not necessarily a "does he vote" scenario...
My first boyf voted. He was LV. He did not talk about politics at all. my last boyfriend did not vote. He was LV too. He would talk shit about certain government leaders and officials...(local and National) yet didn't vote.
I guess that foreshadowed how he acknowledged shit was bad in our relationship but he didn't try to at least help make it better. (lol)
Is the red flag the personality flaw of complaining with no attempt of being part of the change you want to see or is the red flag the decision to not vote ? What do you think?
Thank you for your time.
For me it would depend on his reason for not voting. For example, I rarely vote. Why? Because I am politically homeless in the US and unless there is a candidate on the ballot that I think will truly do what his/her campaign promises, I just won't vote.
To me, not voting because you're tired of the choices presented to you by the corporate duopoly here in the US is different than not voting because you've just never given it any thought.
Good question, and I'd like to know other's thoughts as well. I find it a turnoff when people don't vote because they don't stay informed enough in politics to care (talking about major elections). I think being aligned in political values is critical for any longterm relationship. If I'm being politically informed before an election, my partner should be too. And if you're politically informed, what reason would you have not to vote?
I don't think politics and LV v HV have any correlation. I've known lots of LV men, some politically active others not.
It depends if there's a thoughtful reason or they're just literally too lazy to go to their local polling place and vote/too lazy to spend 5 minutes requesting a mail in ballot. Most guys who don't vote I've met are the latter.
Interesting question which I had to ponder for a bit because people who don’t vote give me a bad impression and I find it difficult to explain why.
There must be a big difference depending on what country the man we’re looking at is from. Now of course in cases of dual citizenship I find it hard to tell someone how to be involved or identify with a political system of their country of origin, and I’ve heard Turks, for example, not trust what is going on in their country (“why vote, it’s all rigged anyway”).
In most other countries in Europe though, there is no reason not to vote, even if you don’t care about politics. You’re registered automatically, the ballot is being sent to your home and you don’t need to spend more than five minutes of research to know that maybe it is to your best interest to not make a cross next to the conservative Christian or the right wing extremist party.
Where I’m from, it’s considered the societal duty of an educated and sane minded adult to give their vote, and if you don’t care to read up on any of it, you just follow the most basic conviction that it’s better to strengthen whoever opposes the right than to waste your vote. If someone proclaims they don’t vote, generally they’ll be considered as childishly defiant, uneducated or disconnected, at worst people will wonder if they have ‘alternative’ beliefs. Not a good sign.
the complaining without trying to change things is defo the red flag. sometimes a person doesn't vote because they don't like any of the candidates and it's ok. that's democracy and people are allowed to have their preference when it comes to electing a representative. the complaining is more important imo.