Every social ill can be traced back to insufficiently democratic political decision-making. Even in formal democracies like the United States, virtually all key decisions which shape society are made by a minority class of highly privileged political and financial actors, while participation from everyone else is limited, performative, and largely inconsequential. Because informed decisions always render the best outcomes for those who participate in making them, life in the US continually gets better for the rich, and worse for everyone else. If decision-making were further democratized, this trend would reverse, and our political system would yield more justice, more economic security, better physical and mental well-being, and an overall higher quality of life for everyone in society. The more who participate, the more who benefit.

The United States of America must immediately extend legal voting rights to all cats, both domestic and stray, aged two-and-a-half years and older. Votes for feral cats may be granted at the municipal and state levels by ballot measure or referendum.