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CGP Grey's Rules for Rulers spells out power structures in authoritarian and democratic countries really well.
If you vote, you are saying "I can support you, or I can support the other guy, but I will support someone" whereas not voting tells politicians you are politically useless, so they won't pay any attention to your needs.
It's a cynical way of looking at it, but if the no. 1 imperative for a politician is reelection, spending time doing things that will get you more votes is better than wasting time pleasing people who probably won't vote anyway.
Don't know how much credit you can give to the guy who gushes over the monarchy.
Did you watch the video? He definitely isn't gushing over monarchs in it.