And as long as chumps like me keep doing that, we’ll keep getting the Clintons we deserve.
And does not voting make her less of a chump? What makes her a chump, in my view, is believing the act itself has much political significance to begin with. She'll get one of the two corporate parties whether she votes or not. You seem to think there's political salvation in abstention, and that there won't be "Plenty more damage to humans & nonhumans to be done in the long term" if you stay home. So make the case.
My case is that what makes the author a chump is the delusuion that stage-managed elections are real politics instead of a distraction, not the act of taking five minutes to make one of the innumerable choices between bad options offered by a failed democracy under neoliberalism. As I've said here before, to me that's a fetishization of the act of voting.