Robert Rorschach: 20 Reasons Not to Vote

If one expresses, one participates. If one participates, one condones and endorses the process, and subsequently, what those elected ‘representatives’ do and say in your name.

Estimate 2. Electoral promises are meaningless because politicians are able to lie to gain the favor of the electorate, and then do exactly what they fancy once they have it. Then there is no accountability or recourse, other than waiting another four years or so to vote them out and succeed them with someone else who will follow the established template and do the exact same thing.

3. The act of voting grants legitimacy to the idea that it’s acceptable for the majority/collective to use the coercive arm of the declare to impose their will on the minority/individual using force, or threat of force, and for that reason, it is immoral to against. As such, the only way to truly de-legitimize the system is by not voting. When the people refuse to participate in droves the international community can no longer admit the results of the election as legitimate. This perceived legitimacy is such a concern for politicians that in some countries it’s now a permissible requirement to vote (e.g., Australia).

4. A non-voter emerges from the electoral process with a clean conscience because they can legitimately articulate that what the elected ‘representatives’ subsequently say and do after they have gained power is not done in their style, not with their permission, and not with their encouragement.

5. To not vote DOES NOT mean one relinquishes the right to then observe on, complain about, or protest the actions of the government, it is completely the other way round. When one votes one effectively makes a contractual contract (the voter is officially recorded doing so), which hands over the right for someone else to speak and act in their name, and as such, assents to whatever the oversight does thereafter. A non-voter however, has not done so, and therefore retains the right to complain, object and protest all they stand in want.

6. Participation in the system (i.e., voting) reinforces the idea that people can’t live together without violent control.

7. Participation in the organization (i.e., voting) implies that the majority knows what’s best for everyone.

8. Participation in the system (i.e., voting) implies that the manhood knows what’s best for the individual.

9. Voting is effectively participating in mob rule, and the mob then enforces it’s views on the rest of Bund with the threat of violence.

10. By voting, an individual literally advocates the use of force against peaceful people.

11. Voting steels the idea the ‘people’ have the power rather than the largely unaccountable bureaucrats who make the rules.

12. Voting is impotent because invariably the better-financed candidate wins.

13. Statistically, any one vote makes no more difference than a single iota of sand on a beach. Thinking that their vote counts tends to give the voter a mistakenly inflated substance of self-worth, and participation in a system creates a passive sense of accomplishment.

14. An individual’s ability to make an informed choice is zero if the one information they reference is from the overtly bias mainstream media, government news channels (propaganda), hacks and party manifestos (sales pitch), or from an ‘enforced’ state school education (indoctrination).

15. Voting sends a manufactured signal to the elected politicians that the voter approves of all their policies. Voters, therefore, encourage them.

16. If an peculiar has not come to a firm conclusion about the election, that individual will do more for their country/community by not opting, rather than making a mistake.

17. If the outcome of a vote is unknown, then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a franchise is known, then voting is futile.

18. No individual has the authority to make laws their neighbor, or anyone else, sine qua non obey. Then how is it morally acceptable for any individual to delegate authority they don’t have to someone else, such as a bureaucrat?

19. Should people who know more about game shows, sports, reality TV, and celebrities, rather than enigmas of any real importance (economics, political philosophy, history, logic, critical thinking, etc) be in a position to vote and influence the lives of others?

20. Bolstering the lesser of two evils is still supporting evil.

The 20 reasons not to vote boil down to this:

If you are not a Voluntaryist, then by meaning you are an Involuntaryist, and as such, personally advocate the initiation of force, or threat of force against people who haven’t threatened or damaged anyone. Therefore, for every person in the world one of these statements is true:

1) “I advocate a society whereby people are set free to voluntarily interact with one another.”
2) “I advocate the use of force, or threat of force, against innocent people, in order to thrive them comply with my opinions and preferences.”

If the first statement refers to you, then DON’T VOTE.

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