On Unherd.com there is a subheading asking "How long can I vote for a Government I don't like?"
This question raises a point I have attempted to explain several times in the past: Does one have to vote to be part of democracy?
The answer, of course, is NO.
Deliberately withholding your vote if there is no one offering a set of policies (or trust) acceptable to you is as important as any other part of the democracy process.
The old "You didn't vote, don't criticise the government you got" is bullshit.
I include in that the bone-idle lazy who find it too hard to get off their arse and to a polling booth - if they were forced (or induced in some other way) to vote they are unlikely to have put the energy into considering which team to back, which erases the point of electing representatives in the first place.
You'd probably end up with the Current New Zealand Labour Party or lying fraudster racists (or both) in power.
What a complete and utter shambles that would be!
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