Is there any point in voting in political elections?
This question is asked from the standpoint of a lay, common person.
Voting by the public every so many years is to determine political representation at the local/city/municipal, state/provincial, and national/federal levels. Basically, people are deferring their decision-making to a small group of people. This deferment creates legitimacy of this group and their decisions.
However, do people actually know that they are giving up their right to decide when they vote?
What happens when the choices presented by the media and on the ballot (any real choices are sidelined/marginalized) are multi-controlled by the same entities and that because of this control nothing overall ever changes?
What happens when between elections people are ignored, and that these so-called representatives serve other interests and even counter to the interests of the people who voted for them?
It appears that voting masks gross governance deficiencies and even legitimatizes them. And establishment governments use so-called voting and democracy as a geopolitical weapon against other countries by asserting the simpleton dichotomy of democracy and authoritarianism.
Since there is a multi-controlled choice and your vote legitimizes it, what is the point?
In this controlled setting, there may be surface and incidental benefit to those who vote such as lower taxation or more health benefits, but overall there is not.
Wouldn't it be better to not vote and if a super majority did this, then at least your vote does not legitimize a system that is serving other interests?
Since a form of authoritarianism shadows over the illusion of Western democracy and by extension the Unipolar Rules-based Order why cover up the authoritarianism or pretend it does not exist?
For a society and even a civilization to advance it must be fully exposed.
Stephen.Garvey@EmergingGlobalRealities.com