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human
CMV: People who say 'If you didn't vote, then you have no right to complain' are wrong

I don't vote in elections - crudely put, I believe the system is corrupt, money is power, and that those who aren't already corrupt will be ground down/out by the powers that be. This isn't something I'm really up to debate, but if you think my belief here is pertinent to your reply, that's fine.

My first, and think most concrete argument, is that my right to complain can't be really given or taken away. I can complain about anything at anytime. 

But that's a douche argument; what people are saying is that because I had the opportunity to influence a decision, but decided not to, I have no right to complain about the outcome.

I still don't agree with that. Here's why:

1. In a vote for elections, my influence is essentially negligible. I've had little to no say in most of the things leading up to it, and my one vote is almost certainly unlikely to matter in the end.

2. My lack of vote has no tangible relationship to the validity of my complaint. Say me and two friends order pizza, they ask me what I want and I say nothing, so they order a pepperoni pizza. Let's say the pizza arrives, and it's objectively a bad pizza (if such a thing can even exist) - it's soggy, it's under cooked, they forgot the pepperoni, yadda yadda. Now, if I say 'This pizza sucks', and they say, 'well you could have had a say' - it doesn't matter. The pizza still sucks. Furthermore, I could have voted for something else, but be outvoted by the other two, and the pizza would still suck.

3. The 'you could have voted' is used as a means to get around criticism/complaints. Me voting or not has nothing to do with whether something is good or bad right now - especially with my 1. argument. This holds especially true if the person using this argument is defending a party he voted for, because, by his own logic, he'd have to admit that his vote caused the outcome.

4. There are multitudes of situations in real life in which I have a say/don't have a say, and can complain about. What makes voting any different?

5. Sometimes, there's no one you want to vote for. If you walked into a shop and saw nothing you want to buy, would you still buy something?

These are the main beliefs I have here. I've met a fair share of people, some who I consider close friends, to believe that the 'didn't vote/can't complain' argument is valid. What am I missing?
gpt
If all the people who claimed "voting doesn't matter" just stopped complaining and participated in the electoral process today, the landscape of democracy would be vastly different.

In short, people who are trying to make a difference aren't much interested in the opinions of people who aren't.