They won't care. Shit like that already happened in some local election in Germany. The AFD candidate was banned from participating and as a consequence only some 30% or so actually turned up. The system didn't give a shit. The 'winning' party celebrated itself anyway.
It was Kierkegaard, I think, who said that impatience is humanity's worst flaws.
Even openly dictatorial states care about voter turnout. They'll pretend not to care, but it undermines their legitimacy all the same. The system's endurance depends on the willingness of the population to obey its edicts voluntarily. It cannot imprison or kill them all. That is why Iranian women were able to effectively abolish headscarf laws by disobeying the law en masse.
I'm not proposing a panacea. We're in a hole. I'm proposing that we do the best we can. We can do no more, but we should do no less.
They won't care. Shit like that already happened in some local election in Germany. The AFD candidate was banned from participating and as a consequence only some 30% or so actually turned up. The system didn't give a shit. The 'winning' party celebrated itself anyway.
It was Kierkegaard, I think, who said that impatience is humanity's worst flaws.
Even openly dictatorial states care about voter turnout. They'll pretend not to care, but it undermines their legitimacy all the same. The system's endurance depends on the willingness of the population to obey its edicts voluntarily. It cannot imprison or kill them all. That is why Iranian women were able to effectively abolish headscarf laws by disobeying the law en masse.
I'm not proposing a panacea. We're in a hole. I'm proposing that we do the best we can. We can do no more, but we should do no less.