I've always agree with my now deceased grandad that bitching about your leader without participating in the election is comical.
I think we can count on the candidate most likely to fuck it up winning no matter what. Benefit of being on this side of the mountain.
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That's just handwaivng. Unless you dismantle that system non-participation is exactly what they want. The governed without influence.

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A democracy without the demos can't pretend to be legitimate.
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It's not about pretensions to be legitimate. It's about. Controlling bodies. And that they do have.
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Power must always be legitimated, whether that be through god, birth, or what have you. Democracy needs the people to believe in government.
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Power must? Power functions that's it. Democracy (or the illusion of it) is just one way it functions.
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