If you do vote, you can’t complain

It doesn’t even matter if you didn’t vote for the person who actually got into power in that election, by voting in that election you are accepting the game of democracy. So whether you win or lose, you’ve already acknowledged that the winner of the election is justified in doing whatever they want to do because supposedly the voters as a collective have given them their “mandate”. 

You might not even share my personal view that politicians are generally warmongers, control freaks, murderers, liars and thieves (who happen to wear suits and call themselves “the state”) – but it is undeniable that whoever gets voted in decides what the government ends up doing for that term. This is a fact that is known to everybody who votes, so there is clearly foreknowledge. Nobody could vote and claim to be unaware of the fact that the person who gets voted in decides what happens.

“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.” – Lysander Spooner

So don’t tell people that if they don’t vote they can’t complain about what happens, because they’re the ones who have chosen not to play the fool’s game that is democracy. At least by not voting they have not given their approval to the system and the candidates. If there is anyone to be blamed for what happens after the election, surely it is the people who have voted.