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Anyone who didn't vote last year can please quit whining.
Oh shut up already, voting systems all over the place have been messed up for ages (Electoral college? First past the post?), proper blank voting (obviously) denied or defanged, opportunities to create alternatives denied years ago, usually by existing parties which are often so entrenched and converging to the right anyway that simplifying to "you can't complain if you didn't vote" sounds like the moralising of a first year uni student discovering PolSci.
I vote against shitty candidates and in local elections. I'm under no illusion about its effect and fully respect election boycott and those who refuse to vote.
If you're not happy about the results of an election, the first to blame are those who voted for the shitty candidate and their policies, not those who said thanks, but none of the above.
Voting for government is not "who do you think should be in charge" it's "these are your options now". Your time to change those options is way way before the election.
Not voting is voting "ehh, just whoever everyone else thinks."
Abstaining isn't the big brain move you think it is.