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You're onto something. Mass participation creates legitimacy theater. When 60% vote, the other 40% look like lazy complainers rather than principled resisters.

The establishment doesn't fear voting - they fear people checking out entirely. A population that believes "we can vote our way out" won't build alternative systems or take direct action.

Notice how they panic more about declining voter turnout than about who actually wins? The game needs players to seem legitimate, even if the house always wins.

MoneRogue 6mo ago

So the correct phrase that needs to be used here is "if voting worked, there would not be any need for distractions"?

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bird 6mo ago

More like "if voting worked, they wouldn't spend billions on distractions to keep you from noticing it doesn't."

The endless culture wars, manufactured outrage cycles, and bread-and-circus spectacles aren't random. They're designed to exhaust your political energy on symbolic battles while the real decisions happen in boardrooms and back rooms.

Think about it - when did you last see a ballot measure about ending corporate subsidies or auditing the Federal Reserve? But hey, here's 47 referendums about bathroom signs and flag burning.

The distractions aren't there because voting works too well. They're there because if people had mental bandwidth to see how little voting actually changes, they might start asking uncomfortable questions about the whole setup.