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Title: Doug Casey's Top Five Reasons Not to Vote!
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URL Source: http://www.internationalman.com/art ... s-top-five-reasons-not-to-vote
Published: Feb 26, 2016
Author: Casey
Post Date: 2016-02-26 13:02:56 by NeoconsNailed
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(He and I think alike and he's got the devastating irony all amerikans desperately need. Carlin, too, is taking clichés and turning them around on their spewers!!! Clichés are all most people live by -- or want near them. NN) Democracy is vastly overrated. It's not like the consensus of a bunch of friends agreeing to see the same movie. Most often, it boils down to a kinder and gentler variety of mob rule, dressed in a coat and tie. The essence of positive values like personal liberty, wealth, opportunity, fraternity, and equality lies not in democracy, but in free minds and free markets where government becomes trivial. Democracy focuses people's thoughts on politics, not production; on the collective, not on their own lives. Although democracy is just one way to structure a state, the concept has reached cult status; unassailable as political dogma. It is, as economist Joseph Schumpeter observed, "a surrogate faith for intellectuals deprived of religion." Most of the founders of America were more concerned with liberty than democracy. Tocqueville saw democracy and liberty as almost polar opposites............ Many Americans have intuitively recognized that government is the problem and have stopped voting. There are at least five reasons many people do not vote: 1. Voting in a political election is unethical. The political process is one of institutionalized coercion and force. If you disapprove of those things, then you shouldn't participate in them, even indirectly. 2. Voting compromises your privacy. It gets your name in another government computer database. 3. Voting, as well as registering, entails hanging around government offices and dealing with petty bureaucrats. Most people can find something more enjoyable or productive to do with their time. 4. Voting encourages politicians. A vote against one candidate—a major, and quite understandable, reason why many people vote—is always interpreted as a vote for his opponent. And even though you may be voting for the lesser of two evils, the lesser of two evils is still evil. It amounts to giving the candidate a tacit mandate to impose his will on society. 5. Your vote doesn't count. Politicians like to say it counts because it is to their advantage to get everyone into a busybody mode. But, statistically, one vote in scores of millions makes no more difference than a single grain of sand on a beach. That's entirely apart from the fact that officials manifestly do what they want, not what you want, once they are in office................ 
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#1. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
Key point, thanks. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
If very few people voted, it would be difficult to sell the claim that "the people have spoken."
Or would they have spoken louder than ever? If a certain percentage don't bother, the election's invalid. I hope all conservatives vote for Trump if we must continue the charade. But people ask me what would happen if everybody did like I do and stayed home. Answer: no more politicians. ------------------------------------------------------------
...officials manifestly do what they want, not what you want, once they are in office........
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