I usually vote all Libertarian, but with Bush having granted himself a complete police-state apparatus which Republicans merely trust him not to use against us, America seemed too far gone to think about fixing it all the way to Libertarian.

But yeah, I always vote. I just suffer from "concern fatigue" when people guilt me about my lack of civic-mindedness compared to them. There's always someone more civic-minded than thou, and this is why I envy you and davehogg your blessedly paltry two hours of superficial research: if you go down the rabbit hole, there's always something else genuinely worth being concerned about. Pretty soon public policy is your life. Eventually you have to stop giving a damn about something. An imminent police state is enough to make me feel like I have a free pass to not care about much else.