I tend to janice's "sometimes they do", and if one does even a little then the effort is worthwhile. In hap's case seems so far you are probably spot on.
Unfortunately, there would be many in every democratic country like him, ones who appear not to appreciate the wonders of democratic systems much at all.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”