Both sides, therefore, feel it is their duty to force you to pick a side, as otherwise you are on the other side. What matters is your indifference is standing in the way of the cause. Your indifference gives support to those who oppose it, so your reasons are unimportant. After all, if you supported the latest fad, you would make that clear. You may not want to engage in the current issues because you simply don’t care, but your lack of caring can only be read as opposition. Democracy off all kinds is a binary system where you can only be for or against the current issue. If people refuse to participate by not voting or not having an opinion, they must be assumed to be in the opposition to whatever is being proposed. That is the basis of all democratic systems of government. The reason for this is democracy can only derive its authority from the general will, which must be expressed through public opinion. There is no escape from politics, because politics is everywhere. Everywhere you go there are people preaching the latest gospel, demanding you engage with it, usually demanding you not only have an opinion, but you have the right opinion. You are not allowed to live outside of politics.
The people trapped in such a system are forced to engage with it constantly.
One of the things about liberal democracy that is hard to see from the inside is how the system must be all consuming.
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