
Nope. I live in a solid Blue County in a solid
Red State, my vote for president wasn't gonna make a difference.
Short answer: No. I never regretted it. My friends gave me more shyt about not voting than the politicians did with their policies and all that upon election.
Long answer: Until recently (read: past couple years) I never worried about voting because either:
A: The candidates that got picked were the ones I would have gone with.
B: I never felt like my way/quality of life would be endangered by whoever won.
C: I cosign the bolded. I'm in Alabama. I already knew what time it was.
Then Trump decided to run for president. And I told my hardcore liberal friends (I am by no means a conservative, but I'm more moderate than anything, I find) that Trump had a real shot at winning. They did not believe me. At that point, I realized that maybe I might need to take note and start getting informed about the world around me. So that coupled with peer pressure, I registered to vote in my current city/county.
But my vote, in the grand scheme, didn't matter. Hell, I asked for a republican ballot during the primary solely to vote against Trump before it even got to the national stage. Didn't matter. I voted for Hilary solely because I thought she was the lesser of two evils, and I didn't trust either candidate with the reins to the country. But I'm in Alabama. It didn't matter. I knew what time it was.
In a weird way, I feel even more helpless/culpable in the decisions Americans make at the polls -- regardless if they line up with mine -- now that I do try to exercise the right to vote than I did when I didn't give a shyt about it and left it to everybody else.