You're convinced by that strange melange of moralistic sin reasoning and politics? (I have no idea what a purely secular version of that could be - what would be 'borrowed time' without his religious interpretation? A dollar of national debt is a dollar of national debt, be it run up by Romney or Obama, or run up early and left to compound versus a larger sum run up later.)
Beethoven is more appropriate here, not to describe Romney but Moldbug - "so he too is but an ordinary man!"
He was writing for a different target audience gwern. Consider this an open letter to disappointed mostly God fearing conservatives from an atheist reactionary. I still found it emotionally appealing for reasons I explained in other comments. I don't doubt Moldbug wrote it under an emotional affect as I said elsewhere. I'm kind of disappointed that you read "debt" as literally as you seem to have. To de-pack the secular non-moralistic argument as I read it:
"We have been chipping away at the foundations of institutions we barely understand ...
Related to: Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity, Does My Vote Matter?
And voting adds legitimacy to it.
Thank you.
#annoyedbymotivatedcognition