The clear pill is a term coined by Mencius Moldbug of neoreactionary circles, which posits that, since the democratic process is a sham, the populace needs to stop participating in order to rob it of legitimacy. Hence, no red, no blue, no color at all. Just the clearness of nothing. That's the gist, anyway. It's more complex than that.
Anyhow, there are plenty of countries with sham elections that the honest citizenry does not bother to participate in, but it rarely results in much more than ineffectual condemnations from enemy countries. In any situation I've seen where an election boycott was enacted, the "winners" just ignore the low turnout and tout the high margin of victory instead, which becomes the basis for their false claims to legitimacy instead.
You describe how I lived most of my life. I voted in 1996, hoping to vote for a Trump like figure but Steve Forbes was eliminated from the primaries before they got to my State. I did help vote in the most fiscally responsible Congress in living memory. I voted for DJT both times. That's it. I bat 1 for 3.
I've only gotten to vote three times so far, and my candidate has never won (I didn't vote for Trump the first time because I thought he was an undercover liberal like my then-governor Bruce Rauner, the scumbag).
The clear pill is a term coined by Mencius Moldbug of neoreactionary circles, which posits that, since the democratic process is a sham, the populace needs to stop participating in order to rob it of legitimacy. Hence, no red, no blue, no color at all. Just the clearness of nothing. That's the gist, anyway. It's more complex than that.
Anyhow, there are plenty of countries with sham elections that the honest citizenry does not bother to participate in, but it rarely results in much more than ineffectual condemnations from enemy countries. In any situation I've seen where an election boycott was enacted, the "winners" just ignore the low turnout and tout the high margin of victory instead, which becomes the basis for their false claims to legitimacy instead.
You describe how I lived most of my life. I voted in 1996, hoping to vote for a Trump like figure but Steve Forbes was eliminated from the primaries before they got to my State. I did help vote in the most fiscally responsible Congress in living memory. I voted for DJT both times. That's it. I bat 1 for 3.
I've only gotten to vote three times so far, and my candidate has never won (I didn't vote for Trump the first time because I thought he was an undercover liberal like my then-governor Bruce Rauner, the scumbag).