Voting in a bourgeois democracy is one of the most futile and pointless acts one can partake in.
Politicians represent lobbyists and donors. Political parties are driven by the ideological interests of elites and capitalists in order to gain the necessary financing and media exposure to win elections in the first place.
Any vote for a politician is little more than a mandate to a corrupt and fundamentally undemocratic system .
Compulsory voting is a particularly pernicious and authoritarian way of herding the electorate into legitimising this so-called “representative democracy” and undermining alternative political models.
Non-voting isn’t “apathy”. It represents anger, and a discontent with the establishment and the parliamentary system itself.
Even if one somehow elects an “honest” politician—and I’ve no doubt this happens at times. What does this achieve? It’s a placebo. It perpetuates the naive view that it just takes voting for moral actors to participate in representative democracy. And then every duplicitous self-centered career politician will try to convince you that he or she is the honest one!
@trailsillustrated Kudos to your children for resisting and taking a stand against voting.