According to the NYT article[0] “about five million borrowers are in default” which means like 1.5% of the population is about to have 15% of their wages garnished. Seems pretty intense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/student-loan-debtors-default-wages-garnish.html
Showing up to the polls and casting an empty ballot is a better gesture than not voting. Not voting at all is how you tell the politicians “you can ignore because I won’t go out and vote against you.” Not voting just makes it easier for the candidate most opposite your own positions to win, because for your one vote against them they have to earn two votes to get ahead of yours.
The general election isn’t where you work on better candidates, it’s where you stop the worst. Voting in the primary is where you go for better candidates (see all the progressives who ran disruptive primary campaigns and won in 2018 and on, culminating with Mamdani). Even Bernie actually ran in and won the Democratic primary for his Senate seat in 2008 before running as independent in the general. We need you in the primaries to get better candidates, and the general to reject the outright fascists.
I didn’t mean to cause a stir here, and for that I’m sorry. I voted my whole life, and I considered myself a civic person. I ran for office in rural KY because I was so enamored with Bernie Sanders. I held my nose and voted for Kamala last time even though I told myself I would never vote for a Dem again. I’m jaded, I’m angry, and it appears I’m likely wrong about my decision. Thanks (to everyone) for their replies. Again, sorry for getting some folks riled up. I really don’t want to cause a stir here.
i know the system sucks. i know it’s unfair. nevertheless, voting remains one avenue of the fight to send a message. one avenue to say to them “at least TRY to be better.” please don’t abdicate it willingly.