“It might be comforting to think that, but it’s simply not true.”
There have been quite a few on here boasting that they did not vote. I read their posts myself.
Yes, of course there were some FReepers who didn’t vote.
But they didn’t “put Barry in office”, as you asserted, unless you meant that the general voting population, including some FReepers, was so turned off by the process and the candidates that they chose not to vote for their own reasons, or they just didn’t have the motivation to vote.
Unlike some countries, Americans are not required to vote.
If anyone chooses not to, that’s their business, and I see no reason to criticize anyone for that decision, especially for the reasons that these non-voting FReepers stated.