That’s all true but I don’t think that actually proves that the US isn’t a democracy. Australia has mandatory voting, nearly everyone votes in every election, and Australia has no more functional a democracy than we do.
The point isn’t about who voted, but moreso just an indication that such a small portion of the public actually choose to support the government. Therefore it isn’t representative
Obviously mandatory voting doesn’t make people choose to support a bourgeois government any more because it still doesn’t solve the problem or give people real choice
That’s all true but I don’t think that actually proves that the US isn’t a democracy. Australia has mandatory voting, nearly everyone votes in every election, and Australia has no more functional a democracy than we do.
The point isn’t about who voted, but moreso just an indication that such a small portion of the public actually choose to support the government. Therefore it isn’t representative
Obviously mandatory voting doesn’t make people choose to support a bourgeois government any more because it still doesn’t solve the problem or give people real choice