Voting in EU doesn’t matter. The bureaucrats follow the rule of the greatest theorist of democracy Josef Stalin: more than who count the votes matters presenting the right alternative. Look what happened in Italy then now Romania.
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cynicism doesn't matter, never has.
Also there are more to democratic processes than voting, and those tings matter a lot to be engaged in.
An average European is a mental prisoner of the welfare state. Most see Swedish "third way" as heaven. Ageing society, pacified by walfare
You know you need to talk to people to stir some new ideas into the system right? xD
I would argue cynicism is a mental prison that have people give up before trying. The freedom lovers need hope and faith in thier ideas being good in and of themselves. Go out talk about them and activate people, help the ideas get more traction.
This is not cynicism, this is realism. I have spent countless hours educating people/friends on psyOps. Later to see them outraged we still didn’t vaccinate or escaped the confinement to the mountains. This is mass formation. We couldn’t stop it in early XX century we won’t be able to do it now.