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Shadow Flare posted...

60-80% of people dont vote because either:

A) Theyre sick and tired of politics
B) The candidates running suck
C) The incumbent will usually always win

Want more people engaged in the political and voting process? Stop shoving socialism down peoples throats. Stop using the media to try to brainwash and indoctrinate people.

It has more to do with how everyone can recognize that their vote doesn't matter, if who they vote for is ultimately decided by a barely democratic process, and who the politicians talk to once elected is a whole bunch of not them. This government is a capitalist dream, everything is for sale for the highest bidder. Then anything that suggests any reform of such a system is shouted down as some bogeyman. Socialism being a big one, even though, not too sure how "every vote is counted" is necessarily a socialist principle.