For years and decades now, in large parts of the Western (dominantly white) world, electoral processes have been the subject of lamentations about the increasing rates of abstention (especially among "young people"), the prevalence of so-called "populist" parties, and the lack of substance in electoral campaigns that elude the most important and damning ecological and social issues. The assessment seems to have gone a long way beyond discontent: representational democracies are shipwrecked.