Voting Itself Does Not Deserve Celebration

It is a sign of unintelligence to treat the mere fact that a person votes as if it is an inherently positive thing, and yet Americans continue to relish it, as if a person is benevolent and worthy of praise simply for voting at all.  People are viewed with suspicion or contempt for not voting, even when there are no options that a rationalistic, consistent, upright person could endorse.  The American political mind is deluded by a lack of intelligence and self-education.

When someone sincerely cares for reason and truth, they lose interest in tolerating the stupidity that is so common in human societies.  It quickly becomes apparent that the intellectual and moral state of the average person is nothing to celebrate.  Thus, when people act upon their ignorance and fallacies in a way that impacts the political-legal world, it remains true that there is absolutely nothing to celebrate.  In fact, that people with such a minimal grasp of reason and philosophy vote at all is cause for alarm (then there is the fact that democratic procedures can have inherent flaws of their own).

American excitement about the mere act of voting is a way for shallow people to feel content about their actions even when they have done practically nothing to ensure a political system that reflects reality.  They might feel satisfied with themselves even if they have blindly voted for the same party for years, indifferent to the massive philosophical errors at the foundation of America's two primary parties.  Start to press people beyond the superficial, and it becomes clear that many of them don't really hold to political positions out of logicality, consistency, and a sound ethical framework.  They support candidates on the basis of preferences and a lack of thoughtfulness.

Is there any basis for thinking that voting itself deserves celebration?  Do all people even have a natural right to vote to begin with?  Many Americans would not enjoy the answers to these questions, since the answers dissolve the facades their political values hide behind.