This same argument can be used with electoral protest. It would be disingenuous to say none voting in protest materialised from nothing.

Yes? Congratulations, you are therefore contributing to our continued democratic decline.

I don’t see your point. If people aren’t voting then that is a symptom and not a cause. I think also a nuanced lens helps with this. People not voting isn’t binary. some knowingly protest, some are seeing the slow encroachment of inequality and just couldn’t care less which leader will continue to fuck them over.