" It is not quite correct that a higher rate of participation is always favourable for democracy…. A growth in the rate of participation can indicate a weakening of social cohesion which will lead democracy to its death; inversely, the widespread opinion that ‘voting can’t change much’, by diminishing participation, can contribute to the stability of the regime. "

― Gilles Châtelet , To Live and Think Like Pigs: The Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies