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If I vote wrong, I'm a traitor?

Dean Esmay writes about the change of heart by Andrew Sullivan regarding supporting George W. Bush, and about how many bloggers have written about it. Esmay's key point:

Andrew Sullivan is not going to vote for Bush, and this does not make him a traitor or a liar.

A heavy weariness falls across me many times I read weblogs or comments because so many have become so over the top it would be beyond belief if the evidence wasn't right in front of me. So many knees have been jerking in the past few months that orthopedic surgeons will soon be deluged with cases of torn meniscus, strained tendons, and displaced kneecaps. People are choosing to let others do their thinking for them, and for many the choice they have made is for loudest shouters, the extremists, to do what thinking is being done.

And the extremists shout that if we don't vote the right way we're traitors.

Isn't that how the Soviet Union worked? They held elections, and you could vote, but you had to vote for the right candidate or there would be consequences.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist?
   -Arthur Schopenhauer