Though it's no real problem, an African-based political discussion can sometimes lack European input which can contort the image of European accordance in politics.
In other words, some European people don't see any political advantage toward voting--in the sense that they view it as crooked politicians who aren't voting in their interests.
It seems a bit confusing when you grant Europeans a similar intelligence to our own, but in reality European people are kind of, for the most part, ill-informed.
I used to discuss politics with Europeans, so I can tell what their political acumen is like. The closest example in this thread would be istlota--with his 'issue-based' tirade [Something that European people have that African people don't]. But essentially, Europeans as individualists attach to 'identities' and thus play "identity politics."
For this, European women would vote for the party supporting women's rights, European "Pro-lifers" would vote against that party, and European homosexuals would vote for the party supporting gay rights, while European 'anti-homosexuals' would vote against that party. Therefore the Democrats and Republicans continue to push up these 'issues' hence the idea of 'issue-based' voting.
Aluku possibly sees in this European pattern something useful for African people, but he fails to see that African people do not have issues on the table. He thinks that "Public Education" is an issue, but his paradigm remains in the European camp: Better Schools for European people.
Either way, it's not true that European people love the political system. Many believe that it can be improved, some believe that it should be done away with, some . . ..
Sometimes it's not comfort but resignation. Plus there's the whole--"What's one vote going to do in an election settled by millions?"
Edit: To wit, "The Lesser of Two Evils" philosophy for voting for Democrats or Republicans, may well be a European idea. Whether it is or not, the idea is certainly used by many, many Europeans.