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Is not gerrymandering a major reason why votes don't count? Does not the
complete indifference of local news media to what's happening politically in
the state discourage those who feel voting should be meaningful? Is not the
usual lack of any real vision (and often a lack of honor) by candidates a
factor? When money buys elections, it is not democracy, but plutocracy. Most
candidates are selected from a social elite, not from the working class, and
so it comes as little surprise they do not change things when in office.

Most people know that we live in a very troubled society, and so are not moved
by candidates who refuse to admit it or to address basic ills. What we
actually have is an occasional empty referendum on the performance of those
who rule us. Voting serves only to legitimate an unjust and immoral system.

I take ""democracy"" very seriously because the word means power held by
people like myself. The precondition of real (economic) democracy is the
collapse of the existing political structure, and it certainly will not happen
through its reform. Not voting is the only way to counter the bogus legitimacy
that sustains the system, and it seems this tactic it is doing well. When its
legitimacy is finally gone, the way will lie open for alternative politics,
for democracy. I have voted faithfully for over sixty years, and I feel very
guilty about my mindless conformity every time.

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