Let me tell you something. I have seen what happens when people who have never voted show up at the polls. They elect celebrity morons like Jesse Ventura.
Democracy requires more than voting, it requires self-government .
Self-government ensures that the tracks are pointing in the right direction. I think it means the active pursuit of knowledge and understanding on the part of the citizen. It means actively seeking out issues, reading newspapers and magazines, discussing and debating approaches and alternatives, making a conscious effort to understand the major concerns facing our towns, states and nation. It means acting not as simply a payer of taxes, a recipient of services and a follower of edicts, but acting as an active partner in the democracy. Then, and only then, does it mean voting.