So... "We already do it but now we want to ask you if you're on board with this"?

Does that mean that if the vote result is negative, will you stop "taking mod action" about it? If the answer is no that's PTB behaviour IMHO.

I think that democrats criticism is valid, your system is shit and both options are bad don't get me wrong, but at this rate you won't even get the right to protest, which is your only tool as a leftist in a system as authoritative, control obsessed and abusive as yours.

I don't want to convince you to vote, but their criticism is valid and shouldn't be suppressed or censored in any way. Reducing republicans power through the midterms is, sadly, the best thing that you can do right now for the leftists communities in America.