09:11
Woofle A Thylacine
The theory is pretty clear however muddled things get in practice: a million decisions must be made about how we set priorities and allocate funds for roads, public health, education, and welfare, war-making and defense, etc. and I can't remember a single California ballot that didn't have measures about school funding, infrastructure, affordable housing, parks and recreation, taxes, criminal justice, as well as unimportant and tedious stuff like daylight savings time.
Those decisions change how life is for people, directly or indirectly and it's not "taking sides" so much as participating in deciding priorities and policy.
It's 100% OK to say you don't want to vote, but please consider the alternative is a powerful few deciding these things for us instead. That's why we're fortunate to have the option to weigh in on these things, AND have the right to choose to abstain if we want and not vote as well.