Mascon2: We're getting a lousy response.
Mascon1: That's okay. Marsha explained that votes that aren't cast don't count.
So what we've got in this "vote of confidence" is not only the
ad populum fallacy but a typical "Liberal" fraud.
No such set of pre-ordained choices (the fallacy of false dilemma, commonly known as the "either/or fallacy") should be permitted - or considered either valid or binding - unless there's a "No Response" or "None of the Above" option included and tracked as a negative in order to determine the extent to which
none of the choices
offered meet with the solicited subject's approval.
I like to think of it as the "Fribble Off & Die, You Bastard" option.
Frankly, in a market-capitalist social system where the participants commonly pack heat or maintain some other kind of weaponry on their persons for purposes of self-defense (while the Mascons, by their nature and background, are self-disarmed "Eloi" types), I'd expect the AnCap "Morlocks" to simply slaughter the Massachusetts
Mamzeren when the Mascons attempt to impose extortion - er, "taxation" - on those who see no "emergency," no need for their "council," and no reason for any of the alleged "majority" to continue wasting oxygen.
Poor cousin Pierre will be fortunate indeed if the delay in transit that finds him on Ceres sponging off Guy Caillard is extended long enough for the bloodbath to run its course
Heck, these Mascons are "Liberals." How can they object to being recycled?