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There's that "I never vote because politicians do not care about the issues of people like me anyway" attitude again.
(Hint: They don't care because your kind won't vote anyway.)
Good point!
That's also a symptom of first-past-the-post only giving people 2 realistic options when we should really have more under mixed member proportional.
I was was going to make a post around the same lines, but in thought it through and in all fairness even in countries with Proportional Vote (the only true Democracies, IMHO) such as The Netherlands, there are still people who won't vote because "all politicians are liars", because they feel their vote won't make a difference or simply because they can't be arsed to go vote.
There are fewer of those than in semi/fake-Democratic countries and those who do vote actually vote in a positive way (to do something) rather than negative one (to block something), but there still are people who think "all politicians are liars" there.
However I do agree the previous poster's metaphor doesn't at all work outside fake Democracies with Mathematically rigged systems such as FPTP like the US.
I always vote.
But when I vote for a minority favourite, I don't go around saying that all other parties ignore a "significant portion" of voters.
As for games, I also always vote with my money.
Oftentimes I buy games (and not even play them) just because they have a linux native release. But I still don't think linux gamers are a "significant portion" of gamers.
So stop with these kind of baseless accusations, where you conjure up a non existing correlation from your ass.