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People who think voting doesn't matter are the ones that make it a reality. Everyone who shows up to not vote, or throw a protest vote, make it that much easier for the fanatics who do show up to get their way.
It's not a perfect system, but refusing to participate doesn't make it better. And "patting yourself on the back" because you decided you'd rather support your pride and ego instead of change (imperfect as it always is) is no less a sign of delusion than believing one election for one position is all that matters.
Every election matters. From local dog-catcher to state reps to president.
Who said anything about not participating. All anarchists I know are at most lukewarm on voting but put more effort into political change by organizing that all the votes in all the elections of a lifetime combined.
The election system doesn't really change anything and makes people complicit by giving them the illusion of a democratic process that's actually worth a damn.
It doesn't change anything because people of action don't participate. Voter participation is shockingly low for a supposedly "free" population. It's not the only thing that matters, but it does a whole lot more than screaming from the rooftops about how much of a fool other people are for actually participating.
Are you claiming that activists don't vote? Or that being an activist isn't participating in the democratic process?
I'd like a source if you meant the former and seriously question your idea of democracy if youmeant the latter.
I'd claim that this is the output for a system which alienates so much of the people's power in everyday concern. Not the reason why the system does that.
Consider the french revolution. Was agitation against the aristrocracy more effective than praying and being sure that the people above did what was best for their country?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B