Wow those are some assumptions. > Being silent - not voting - is NOT the same as voting against something. I never said it always is. However not voting does

Wow those are some assumptions. > Being silent - not voting - is NOT the same as voting against something. I never said it always is. However not voting does not mean being silent. I explained this in my analogy where most of the people said not interested in the pizza. Similarly people who are vocal about politics in their life, online, participate in political fights in workplace, whether individually or through unions, other creative activities and so on are already participating in democratic processes. They are already not silent. The fact that some of them do not participate in a given vote they don't like does not diminish that. > then they could join up and create an alternative. But this is not what happens. Of course it happens, in general. Maybe you mean that in your country it does not happen, or it does happen but not everybody who does not vote is involved in that. So what? There are other ways to participate in democratic processes which I mentioned above.