Yes, I'm advocating for people not to vote, because it legitimizes anything and everything politicians pass as law. I don't want to empower a system that operates under the idea that those in government can do whatever they want as long as they give themselves permission via "law".
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So your stance is that lower voter turnouts result in the public perceiving the acts of the government as less legitimate thus reducing their power?
That's part of it, but I mostly want people to stop viewing governments as legitimate at all. I submitted a very short post about it here:
https://steemit.com/politics/@censoredrefugee/voting-in-a-nutshell