Voting is not democratic.
My preferred system is a combination of lottery-based representative governance, where the lottery is selected from a pool of potentials with enough support. Support is tallied via a liquid democracy. This system is relatively incorruptible and offers actual representation.
Is this a system you’ve ever heard of, or is it one used anywhere?
No?
Then I am not represented. I won’t smear my head in shit because everyone else is. Your “democratic government” was destroyed well over 50 years ago when the business plot succeeded. Your “voting” is submission to tyranny. When a mechanism is corrupt and your options are invalidated, the only option is to stop using it.
How well has your voting gone? What about when democrats had control of all branches of government?
How many drone strikes stopped?
Did single payer healthcare get passed?
Was tax law actually enforced on billionaires?
What happened when the “good guys” in your mind won?
What will it take for you to realize where you are? You were never in a democracy.
Nonvoters are casting a vote. It is a vote out of a shit system that doesn’t work. Pull your head out of your corporate captured ass. As soon as true rebellion is ablaze, those “nonvoters” will show you where their vote is.
But go ahead. Keep screaming into the void, just like your wasted vote. Blame the nonvoters. Hell, blame them MORE than those actively supporting fascism. That sure makes sense. Don’t even think of blaming lobbyists, rigged voting machines, gerrymandering, judicial capture, media capture, analytical brainwashing, first-past-the-pole voting, and absolutely tiny representative pools (easier to bribe)…
No, don’t blame that. Instead, put your energy into the people so disillusioned by the system they opt out. THAT’LL show them. Maybe it will get them to vote for your team? Yeah! Bully them until they vote!!
“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth — whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based.”
“We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.” — Jean-Luc Picard
Some of the basic tenants of Star Trek society are inclusion and shared progress. Elitism and exclusion are how we got to the mess we find ourselves in.
A better lesson is responsibility for the “nerds.” You all sold your talents and abilities to salespeople and conmen instead of seeing the value in yourself. Then, you got manipulated into building a dystopian technology that entraps the common people instead of liberating them.
They needed guidance and you gave them your insecurity instead. The evil desires the technology as it is does not have the intellect to manufacture it. That requires complicit “nerds.”