> If you don't vote, you have no one to blame but yourself. This is the central lie/blame assignment of democracy, and it is plainly false on its face. How ca

> If you don't vote, you have no one to blame but yourself. This is the central lie/blame assignment of democracy, and it is plainly false on its face. How can someone totally uninvolved in a process be in any way whatsoever responsible for the outcome of that process? You also go on to refute it yourself in the next paragraph. On that, we are in agreement: there is no fundamental problem with the state that can be fixed by voting. Voting legitimizes the fraudulent and coercive system; abstaining is a vote for its invalidity. More people consider the system invalid than participate in it. I think political posts should be empty if more people abstain from voting than vote for any single candidate.