Unsubscribing from 38 degrees

I just received an email from you telling me to vote. Not to vote for a particular person or party, but just to vote. I fail to follow the logic of this appeal, unless it is that 38 degrees members will vote a certain way in general, so encouraging them to vote is a good thing. In any case, I think voting is a waste of time. I know that this immediately makes me seem like a moron, but I'm a professional political theorist, so I'm capable of defending my feeling more than the great majority of people who quite rightly perceive that voting is a waste of their time when they are lectured by the politically enthusiastic. Why should I vote? I do want Ken to beat Boris. But I'm not going to vote. Because I cannot possibly know the consequences of this action. My individual vote will likely be a waste, in that it won't be decisive. Of course if everyone thought like that no one would vote. However, I don't recognise myself as the author of a universal law. Moreover, I don't think no one voting would be a bad thing. In fact, I think it would be fantastic. I would have been vastly happier if you'd campaigned to stop people voting. Furthermore, even if I were able to decide, personally, between Boris and Ken, I don't actually know what this will mean. What will they do with their mandate? What broader political effects will this have? Ordinary people can't know and can't judge, but voting encourages them to believe in their omniscience. My point is not anti-democratic, but rather that people ought to be in control of their own lives, not being told they should go and surrender control of their lives in favour of their best guess about what box-ticking might lead to.