It sounds like JohnnyFlame is actually complaining about the choices, not about the idea of democracy itself. But it's a tree-in-the-forest kind of question: if you don't vote, do you live in a democracy? I sort of think the answer is no.
There aren't perfect choices--there aren't perfect systems. But you have to participate in the system to the extent you're allowed to, or it falls apart. Democracy is in a sense an oligarchy of the non-apathetic. Those who are too lazy to vote live in a dictatorship--even if most of the time they don't care.
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