Pic related is the problem, the 5th generation warfare paradigm. The gov has so much signals information that they've started designating people and ideas as threat actors, before they actually even become threats. So in a sense the Liberal elite has chosen to go to war with it's own population, chosen to designate certain ideas and philosophies as subject to persecution, and began an unannounced war roughly coinciding with the 2016 election of Donald Trump to prevent democratic discourse over immigration and national autonomy.
So of course, years into a process of seeing community leaders attacked unduly, liberal thug leftist militias rampaging over voters to public applause, massive psyops using the legacy media to destroy the conservative political opposition, complete electronic surveillance, institutional totalitarianism and hostility to traditional ways of life.... most people are concluding that the countries which practice these systems are not really democracies and are simply hybrid dictatorships.
And of course, you would be really stupid to believe that voting alone is going to solve your problems in a hybrid dictatorship. You would also be really stupid to trust the government, legitimize the political system with consent, listen to or agree with the government lugenpresse, or support any aspect of the hostile regime imposed by force. All of which will result in a deterioration of national resolve, extreme polarization, large segments of the population checking out and seeking alternative beliefs, total distrust in the ruling quo, and disdain for the government. That's what's been happening in the globalist soviet clients states worldwide, what we're seeing now. Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, probably many more.... are going to suffer sustained collapse until a radical party takes power electorally and sweeps the old order aside completely. Or simply collapse into basketcase shitheaps, like some kind of western version of the green zone or the west bank.
Most of the Globalist basket case nations don't seem to have had enough of a reality check to realize they must reform or fail completely though, so I think the tendency will be towards the logical conclusion of treating the population like COIN actors instead of civil society. Which is the legitimacy vacuum goes somewhere else.
I do find it amusing that the government thugs think they can still pick up a few bad apples with fedposting, going mask off, soliciting unironic terrorism etc. The big wave of western society's state failure is crashing right now, and it's going to play out no matter what these retards do. America seems to be the only one poised to avoid the worst of this, since they have ridden themselves of the globalist clique and their violent leftist apparatchiks generally.