Wait a minute, I get it: The philosopher's stone was found by a small but oh so furious elite group on a chat forum originally devoted to marine simulation video games and it had written "voting is stupid" and "politicians are scum" on it.
Thus this elite group had stopped voting long ago. But that didn't stop them from spraying poison on the democratic process and the outcomes of the process they had decided not to take part in.
They simply neglected that politics is the art of the possible and reasonable compromises, and sometimes it is a "one step forward, two steps back" business. And between the lines of hate and anger in their multitudinous posts it became clear they wanted to play it "my way or the highway".
When they found out that there were far too many heretics to burn them all, they became cynical. When they realized they had become prisoners of their own device they felt embittered. Their world had turned into a dark, cold and LONESOME place.
homo sum humani a me nihil alienum puto
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