Interesting thought experiment. I don't think it will happen this way though. More likely is that the voting numbers continue to decline but we never get even close to zero. What is happening is more and more people realizing their vote doesn't matter but they still do it. Basically disenfranchisement. If you think my vote and your vote are twice the value of Bill Gate's vote you are fooling yourself. I don't vote because I don't believe in the system. It started with realizing my vote didn't matter or make a difference. I look at it like this. As a parent that wants to give my kids a choice I offer them two or more choice but all of which are ones I am ok with. This is basically the US form of democracy. It is rare that anyone gets into office that isn't approved by the elites (for good or ill). I would argue that Trump is the exception and they did their best to contain him. I think they did a pretty good job of doing so.

Our biggest issue in the west is the illusion of choice, not the decline of democracy. We think we are more free than we are. We are trained to focus on things outside of our control and ignore things within our control. Invest in yourself. Vote or don't. I don't care, but I do want to see more people focus on solutions in their own lives, families, and local communities/neighborhoods.

Someone is going to vote. In fact, the more people decide that they won't participate the more power accrues to those who do participate. Take your meme as the perfect example; the last guy voting is the only thing between the politician and a horrible death. He will have the politician by the balls, and thus will be his sole boss. Which is the reason why the second-to-last guy actually won't leave, and the third-to-last, etc.

So in short, it's a trick question. There will never be an incentive for all people to not vote. The more people refuse to vote, the greater the incentive to vote. Till you reach an equilibrium.

If you haven't read "The Sovereign Individual" I'd recommend that as it does give some context about how existing systems fade over time and then are replaced. The Roman Catholic Church rule over the west for example.

Who's the "we" in that question? If it's the audience of this post, then absolutely nothing would change. If it's literally everyone (even the candidates don't vote for themselves), then there are appointment rules for vacant seats.

I don't know how much it would accelerate collapse and recovery.

Those who did not vote were the most crucial in determining 2016 Presidential Elections in USA

Recently we had elections in a town of Argentina where there was only 1 candidate as major of the town. However the blank votes were more than his votes and therefore he lost the elections.

This was how Apartheid ended.

Mathematical fact is that only swing voters affect the election.

If they already know how you are going to vote, you don't matter.

Not voting is actually a vote of no confidence in the election process. So it does eventually lead to real change.

Fantastic meme. First time I've seen it. Are we talking about presidential elections? Ostensibly, the campaign money would dry up and political prestige would take an enormous hit. Ultimately presidential elections would be decided by Congress, who I happen to believe should decide [presidential] elections to begin with. This election brings out the absolute worst in people. In they're current form, they're enormous wastes of time, productivity, and money. State reps make half the Federal government to begin with, and have a bigger impact on your day to day lives. State/local elections could use more voter involvement.

Why would we spiral into chaos? Is that what hollywood told you?

If people were actually wise enough to come to the conclusion that voting is nothing but giving permission to some assholes to enslave you, then they'd be wise enough to form a completely voluntary society based on the private sector & free market.

This is what Anarcho-Capitalism is all about. We know that if you just deleted those in power now a vacuum would form and the useful idiots would all just demand to be ruled by somebody new. That's why it takes education first so they don't want that anymore.

So I don't see it spiraling into chaos by any means. If they somehow voted all 'the bums out' then they'd simply want new bums, and hold emergency elections to get them.

But if it's like you say, everyone refused to vote, then they came to the (obvious, IMHO) conclusion that voting is bad because having rulers is bad. This would be every anarchist's dream come true.

Civilization would finally begin to flourish in a way that you can't even conceive right now. No regulations, no bureaucracy, no bad laws, no bad cops, nothing at all to make life harder on you than it would be in nature.

For those looking to learn more about this extremely-well-explored field of thought, I recommend starting with Larkin Rose videos on YouTube, and then graduating to of the many many many books on anarchocapitalism at Mises.org, like the Machinery of Freedom or basically anything written by Rothbard.

I tried it, nothing happened to me or country :)

The biggest group in the 2020 presidential election were people who did not vote. My take away from that is that most people in the US don't want anything to do with the political system.

file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/91/01/7ECADD75-DE54-44E8-A8AA-ACB34EE9F8A4/FC2F5371043C48FDD95AEDE7B8A49624_Springmeier.-.Bloodlines.of.the.Illuminati.R.pdf

Our votes don’t count anyway, however in my opinion every event our government advertises to us is a survey to see how many of us still need to be parented ( taken advantage of, in the most disrespectful way imaginable) so they know what event to sell us next!!! I suppose they would know that good has prevailed over evil in way of a collective realization that we don’t need them, we don’t want them, we are aware that they are not who they appear to be, and we know there promises are hollow, and only set up the stage for more hollow promises. In short they would do something deceitful to force back into the corner like create a pandemic, light forest fires, have us believe the middles from North Korea are getting closer and closer, that Russia and china are going to take over, and aliens are going to attack to force our need for there protection. I think a better question is what if everyone quit working for the corporations at the same time, and everyone pulled all of there money from the banks and ripped up there credit cards on the same day. Followed by refusing to pay rent, etc. I think the outcome would be very sad, I think the destruction, death, pain, suffering they would deliver would come without any care or remorse, because they are pure evil. They already know the amount of damage our world can sustain and the time it would take to heal. They are very prepared to do the wrong thing when we try to do the right thing.

My opinion: The speed at which society could spiral into chaos and recover depends on numerous complex and unpredictable factors such as the cause of chaos, the resilience of the affected society, and the response from government and community efforts. Generally, societies can face challenges and recover at different rates, ranging from days to years or even longer. Building strong social systems, preparedness, and cooperation can help mitigate the impact and speed up recovery in times of crises.

The dead would still vote 🤣🤣🤣