It seems that the government has a vested interest in keeping people voting. They promote it so heavily, even if they know the votes don't actually matter. And to me that is to continue to give the government the illusion of legitimacy. If they gave an election and nobody came (or at least very smaller numbers voted), I think everyone would be closer to seeing the jig is up. 
That's the point: then the cronies and government employees are the only ones that come to vote!
In Russia and such, the government sends their members and employees to vote!
In #US, #UK, #EU, and so on, would be just as bad, because so many either are government members or on the dole.
So, telling people not to vote just maximises the above effect.
Government promotes voting , because they know that most in the opposition consider it some kind of effective protest not to vote.
They know people distrust government and try to do the opposite of what the government promotes.
It's a reverse psychology tactic.
Do you know the art of the deal? The polling is more important than the actual vote because it is from campaigning and polling where the system actually get a good idea of what "we the people actually want". They then taylor their policies around that information and find how they can take certain emotionally evocative issues and make them the single issue on which everything hinges. We have nostr and ai now. So people will have access to know and platforms to advocate their desires and needs from civil society. Campaigning won't be as costly and finger pointing politics will become redundant as positions of power become less impactful and profitable. Large corpo's won't get loans so smaller family artisanal type businesses will make comeback. So lobbying willd die also making politic less desirable but also less "existential crises" like. Less charismatic preacher types and more normal mundane engineer types will involve themselves with positions like mayor and congress positions because all the flare and hype will be meaningless meaning people who care can be actively involved in fixing things.
Trump just makes deals and the populace is an easy close. Happy for cheap. Well done.
But the people are retarded by the flash and lights of congressional democracy in a fiat system.
Going to be shaking my head when Trump increases involvement in the middle east all over again.
Good luck with "fixing things" that way!
The only way such a Leviathan that makes a living exclusively by threatening and wielding violence can be fixed is with violence.
That's been shown true worldwide, since the beginning of the traditional gangsterment business model.
None of what you mentioned can make a difference, because the bureaucracy shall always resort to violence wherever anything actually threatening to their livelihood business model arises.
That fundamental system cannot be fixed; it can only be scrapped through violence that establishhed it at its beginning.
Not even Bitcoin fixes that.
Read again a little bit slower.
