As someone who moved from Australia to the US, I can tell you you’re wrong.
Compulsory voting means you can’t win by riling up your base with extremist nonsense to drive up turnout. Everyone is voting anyway, so you have to appeal more widely.
You can’t drive down turnout to get a party with minority support to win, like russia did in the US.
Voter suppression by fascist politicians is much harder when people legally have to vote.
With non compulsory voting, it’s always the working class who have the greatest number of pressures against voting. Compulsory voting corrects the class imbalance at the ballot box.
The idea that the masses are too stupid to be trusted with voting is an elitist lie.
As someone who moved from Australia to the US, I can tell you you’re wrong.
Compulsory voting means you can’t win by riling up your base with extremist nonsense to drive up turnout. Everyone is voting anyway, so you have to appeal more widely.
You can’t drive down turnout to get a party with minority support to win, like russia did in the US.
Voter suppression by fascist politicians is much harder when people legally have to vote.
With non compulsory voting, it’s always the working class who have the greatest number of pressures against voting. Compulsory voting corrects the class imbalance at the ballot box.
The idea that the masses are too stupid to be trusted with voting is an elitist lie.