Don't Vote? Don't Complain

I noticed a line of Talkback posts arguing back and forth about the priveledge of voting enjoyed by all of us who are legal residents of the United States. Every four years we decide on a president with no military takeovers, no riots in the streets, no one going door-to-door dragging out members of the opposition party. We just get a new president or we keep the old one for four more years.
Between the times given over to those historic national moments we vote for candidates to lesser offices: council, school director, senator, etc. It all comes down to us needing to go to the polls nearly every year though, in truth, some years are more interesting and exciting than others.
Be that as it may, the importance of voting for whoever you want is something that can't be understated.
There are a lot of reasons to go to the polls whenever you possibly can and I won't go into them because you've probably already heard them a hundred times. I will say, though, that it some times boils down to one small reason for me and it is enough to keep me going to vote even when the election that season is equally obscure. It is the fact that if I don't vote then I don't have the right to gripe about anything government on any level does. That, dear reader, is a right I will never give up.