Beerbohm argues that one cannot insulate oneself from shared responsibility for government injustice by not voting-or, in our terms, by being politically apathetic. This because of the institutional ties binding citizens together. If our democratic state is unjust, and we do nothing about it, we are like someone who knows that a friend plans to rob a bank and prepares him breakfast that morning or puts gas in his getaway car. We provide support, to one degree or another, to the overall enterprise and knowingly do nothing to blunt its evil intent. This makes us accessory to the injustice.

— Democracy for Busy People by Kevin J. Elliott (Page 39)