I believe that the time spent worrying about these large scale things and voting on them is better spent doing something concrete for those around you, because voting IS a waste of time. It focuses our worries on this world and on the future (as Lewis said about the future being what the devil wants to focus us on most of all, the past being another, as long as we are not focused on this present moment and eternity) over issues that we have no real control or (for the most part) even interest in.
Considering the quote above, it seems this would be in conflict with any form of democratic process in the political national sphere. It seems that, while your beef my be with the american system being anti-democratic, your overarching beef would even be with a real democracy.
If not, then, what is a "real democracy" for you. What does it look like and how is it NOT at odds with your above statement?
I'm not trying to accuse you of anything. Democracy is what makes sense to me, but I do not claim it to be somehow more God-pleasing than other forms of governemtn. All workable forms of government I am aware of have their own unique ways of encouraging the human... to forget his humanity. I will never forget the obituary I had read inthe Economist about a russian priest during the Communist era named Dimitry Dudko. He was extremely outspoken against the godless communists and was a true hero to the orthodox people. Then he was imprisoned and sometime later announced (I believe on TV, or the letter was read on TV??) that his attacks on th Soviet Regime were wrong (or somethign to that effect). Now, there is a lot in the letter that I am sure was very coerced and I am sure that it pained him to write a lot of that letter. But truth still came through when he warned his people (in the letter) about godless capitalism. He warned them against desiring to be like the West where they would drown in their materialism. He made an interesting point. He asked who we were to assume that we, as individuals, knew what was best for our well-being. He warned that too much freedom can give way to the peril of our souls. We learn no discipline and we follow our evey whim.
Now, I am paraphrasing greatly here, but that the point of what he had written. And it's true. Democracy opens the way for us to be complete heathens and never think twice about it. Communism has it's own demons. But both are intrisically focussed AWAY from God and what is necessary for our soul, although in their own way.
But, we live in this world, so we are called to constantly inform anything we do with our faith. For some that has meant not voting, for others that has meant voting. My guess is that God cares more about the intentions that are used justify the action rather than the actual action itself.
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