The problem with voting is that you inevitably have to play the game, and by playing the game, you clearly must know the rules of it (why else enter?). And by any reasonable standard of thinking, voluntarily entering a game and knowing its rules must also mean accepting those rules. The obvious rule of the voting game is that whoever gets the most votes wins, and winning means power over everybody without exception. This means the losers have to accept whoever is victorious in the elections; that’s democracy.

Does that give voters a right to complain? Not necessarily. They can undoubtedly be dissatisfied with the outcome of the elections, but they have voluntarily entered the game and lost. They knew what they were doing and accepted the terms; when defeated, they should take the consequences.

What about the people not entering this stupid game of “who rules whom”? They too have to take the consequences, but not because they accepted the terms. On the contrary, to non-voters the system is very clearly oppressive – you never accepted the terms of the system and never even took part in it, and yet whatever the victors decide is forced down your throat.

Voters have no real reason to complain, they accepted the game’s rules and played it all the way – but lost. A poker player cannot enter a game and then reclaim his bets after losing; he plays to win and runs the risk of losing his bets. That’s how the game is played. The same goes for voters: it is only fair that they stick to their decision to enter this lunatics’ game and face the consequences.

The problem with this game is the winner claims the right to rule everybody, including those who did not take part in the elections. Non-voters are forced just like anybody else to obey whatever rules the political class comes up with. Do these poor people not accepting the game of government have a right to complain about this? It should be pretty obvious they do. Voters do not.