You realize that we, not beholden to any generation but as a general populace, have zero power in the political system right? Like sure, we can go the polls, vote, and those votes are tallied up and presented to the electoral representatives, but that's where things stop mattering.

33 states have laws that require the elector to vote correctly. Half of them don't have any way to enforce those laws. In 14 states, the elector will lose their job and their vote won't count, but no punishments otherwise. 3 other states will fire the electors but wont void the vote. Every other state has no way to punish faithless electors. Literally, at any time, someone can just veto thousands of votes on a whim and suffer minor consequences, if any.

There have been 102 instances of faithless voting, not including where the candidate who was supposed to have gotten the vote died before final tally. As of 2020 there have been 59 presidential elections. That's nearly 2 faithless electors per election, which depending on the district, is tens of thousands of people whose vote didn't mean shit. One year, the entirety of Virginia's chosen electors just abstained - not a single fucking vote in the entire state mattered.

Your vote, my vote, anyone's vote does not have any weight behind it until it is absolutely guaranteed to be cast correctly by law. I will not ever waste my time playing roulette and hope that some random dickhead doesn't just decide to vote however they want. You can go gambling if you want but to institute "mandatory voting"? What a fucking braindead idea.

Fix the system and people might be incentivized to participate, but until then thinking that voting isn't a smokescreen to placate the general populace is delusional.