
Terminal Democracy
British Columbia provides the setting for this look at whether democracy is quietly failing from neglect rather than collapse. The All Access 9346 film crew travels the province asking a blunt question: what happens when citizens grow too distracted or too disillusioned to take part in politics? The film puts that question to the people actually inside the process, sitting down with politicians, policymakers, and community organizers, and it also stops to talk with ordinary residents about the issues shaping their daily lives, from local governance to the sense that their vote changes little. Rather than staying in the abstract, it treats democracy as a working system, one that depends on citizens showing up, and measures British Columbia's version of that system against its own theory. The throughline is participation itself: who still shows up, who has checked out, and what that gap costs a province that runs on elected representation.