Against Voting

It is a frightening thought to realize that we don’t vote for political reasons, but for astronomical ones. We vote only because so many days and so many nights have passed since the last time we’ve done so. The power of the people consists in this, unfortunately. So confined has it become in comparison to The State’s power that it amounts to us waiting until they roll out the circus tents and voting booths before we make any effort towards governing our own lives. However brief and paltry the charade may seems at a quick glance, it satiates any desires until the next time, which may be years on. So it is.

No amount of serious indoctrination about the act of voting as a “civic duty”, or some other babble, can hide the obsequious nature of the ballot, a piece of abdication, and us lining up to choose which job-seeking mammal gets to determine the rules within which each of us shall live. Put aside the fact that the election is an ancient and feudal relic like slavery, the vote is The State’s only gift it has ever feigned to give us, the “big thanks” we get for letting it live parasitically upon the wealth and effort of the people it governs, even if it’s all done on their terms and conditions that any vote only accrues to their own benefit, never ours.

I suppose one could protest or vote in a dead man—“if we can’t have a live statesman, let us by all means have a first-class corpse” —but a better approach may be found among the apathetic, the felons, the illegals and the disenfranchised. They had it right all along! Do not vote! If no man is good enough to be another’s master, then do not tick a box next to his name, do not legitimize state power and dominance, and do not sign any blank check to an organization of knaves and rogues. In refusing to vote one also refuses to be complicit in The State’s criminality, its wasteful efforts, its galavanting, all of which is made legitimate wherever we hand in our signatures.

And what happens when, after years of no voting movements take hold of the wondering populace, that on election day no one votes? Change, finally and at last.

the system itself fights change and the only change on offer is the approve variety..

we now life in a world where 30 years ago we'd be poking fun at the corrupt soviet elections now its our turn to look and be as corrupt as the soviets..


all we can hope is it'll fall sooner rather than later as the longer it goes on the more painful the fall will be..

originally posted by: nickyw
the system itself fights change and the only change on offer is the approve variety..

we now life in a world where 30 years ago we'd be poking fun at the corrupt soviet elections now its our turn to look and be as corrupt as the soviets..


all we can hope is it'll fall sooner rather than later as the longer it goes on the more painful the fall will be..

At least back in those days when they talked about building a wall, they built a #ing wall (looking at you berlin)

Our modern day example of a career politician that doesn't give a flying fk for the American people, just only polluted with a power hungry mind of a starving crook at the Pearly Gates of Hell waiting for the SOB.

The man has sold his soul to the true enemy and that enemy lies within himself.

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a reply to: LesMiserables

At the end of the day the two party system is a con. We all know that yet no one of any political stature calls it out. I'd never vote for anyone who is a member of those parties. For the life of me I can't understand why people go out and vote at all.
I have never voted except for once in a referendum. Perhaps it's human nature that the criminals always rise to the top.
I see no hope for change.
I loved the Icelandic 'Pots and Pans' revolution where the whole parliament was drummed out in a walk of shame. Not only that but 36 bankers got 96 years in jail between them. Sadly I think that could only work in a small nation with a small population.

a reply to: LesMiserables

It is utter insanity to believe voting matters one way or another.

a reply to: Brotherman

thats so true... but still i recall from my teen years the comedy routines comes soviet elections of them electing potatoes now we have our very own potato elections.. i wonder how long before we mirror their fall a this is not sustainable..

a reply to: midicon

the 2 party system is simply about rejecting the other side rather than electing 1 side, so no side actually wins just one side is not rejected its all fundamentally broken...

a reply to: LesMiserables

Welcome back. It’s been a very long time since I read your erudite words.

So what to do about the obvious? At this point I don’t think they actually care anymore about keeping the illusion of choice going. We are in the cusp of a great reset, a transition into a technocratic rule. A resource based economy of the 4th industrial revolution.

We will be governed directly in real time, those of us who can’t afford a good social/environment credit score will be at least, aka the vast majority. But not to worry, we will live our lives in the meta verse and do everything virtually instead.

Take a look around we’re nearly there.

a reply to: LesMiserables

It is seldom that I read a post here and think, I wish I'd written that. (Probably more like never.)

I wish I'd written that.

At nearly 60 years of age, this is the first time I really didn't give a rat's ass about voting. I knew what was going to happen. One "party" would cheat like hell and the other "party" would be complicit through inaction. (I put "party" in quotation marks because we all know that they are just two sides of the same plugged nickel. There is no true two-party system; perhaps there never was.

I did vote at my civic minded wife's behest, but I did so with a sense of futility, abandonment and something approaching disgust.

Game over.

The problem isn’t the act of voting. It is the resignation of responsibility after the vote. The official is to be a voice of representation of those that voted. But is there communication after the fact? Does the official listen to the represented? Do he voters remove them? Do he voters raise a protest to have them removed early?

It would be great if all fishing needed was to cast the line and reel it in to be fed. But that is an oversimplification at best and disingenuous to the commitment involved.

At seventeen, I was introduced to the sitting Vice President because I spoke at length with my local State Representative. Intelligent conversation and questions on policies and procedures. For my part, I taught him a few tricks for public speaking in both working a crowd and how to identify and impress valuable individuals. Needless to say, that Spring I received a letter of congratulations for graduating high school.

Yes, that was a long time ago. But being introduced as “this is the young man I was just telling you about, Mr. Vice President…” kinda sticks with you. Did we always agree? No, he took the guy that was going to get me a local radio gig in college to be his Sec of Ed. But that’s not the point.

The point is that voting isn’t the end of your responsibility and commitment. If your elected official is too good to listen to the people, make that well known especially ahead of election season. Not in a rude manner, but be straightforward.

a reply to: Ahabstar

Would be interesting if everyone would sit one out, vote count zero.

I think then we would see a glimpse on how our modern democracy really works.

a reply to: XipeTotex

If everyone sat out, it would still take a week to count all the mailed in non-votes with one party winning in a remarkably close race…pulse pounding.