And then the government starts trying to arrest you, gangstalk you, or insert paid off influencer shills to keep you from speaking or on the plantation. It's like "democracy" isn't really the underlying model of our form of government, and is merely a descriptive form for the process of manufacturing consent. Y'know?
Elite figures, when they hear people talking about wanting the right to vote because of human rights and all these other stupid things actually laugh. Because that's not how they interface with politics whatsoever. They have money and they use it to transform society into molding into their desired thought patterns. Voting has nothing to do with it. You could take away the electoral ballot and they would still be paying for propaganda ops, secret police, bribery and compromise of intermediary figures, and private armies anyways. The concept of your vote having any power is a misnomer designed to continue keeping you in the lie that our system of government reflects popular interests. Actually it doesn't.
Because the freedom of dissident actors to speak is tightly regulated and controlled, dampened and then channelized into predictable routes where they are segregated from society and unable to actually influence it. Western countries in the information age are simply highly formalized aristocracies where power is competed with among a select number of figures in the ruling class. One which no longer has any connection to popular needs these days anyways.
The answer for average people, of course, is to delgitimize the entire system by pointing this out