Alas the lazy voters

It is so unbelievably frustrating to see fellow-citizens so breezily giving up their right to vote so they can have a day on the beach. Let's say that we can forgive youngsters who refuse to take anything seriously and don't think their vote is that important in any case. But I cannot find any excuse for those voters who treat voting like something they only do when they can be bothered. They abstained in the parliamentary elections of 2019, as they did in many other instances before that. They have no excuse for the upcoming European Parliament elections, because the postal vote gave them the option to cast their ballot and still get a day at the beach or even to go to an island for the weekend. Yet I still hear them sneering: "As if… I'm not giving up my weekend for anyone or anything."

What they would vote for is irrelevant. That said, these tend not to be people who are...