ed2276
Regular Member
To not vote, Is simply the act of not choosing a master, or set of masters. If liberty is truly your goal, one could argue that choosing someone to rule over you,(voting) is surrendering completely. The idea that voting is what separates us free folks from other less fortunate people, is to ignore many other fundamental problems.
- The idea that by the ritual of voting, as a collective we can give certain people authority to do things we ourselves can not do.
- The idea that you still tell yourself that you have liberty, when others can out vote you, and choose your ruler for you.
- The idea that because there was a majority, (say who voted for those that passed prohibition laws) that somehow you and I have a moral obligation to abide by the wishes (laws) of those rulers.
- The notion that the person elected in your district, represents you. This absurd claim extends to "all those in the persons district" including non voters... and those that voted for someone other than the person elected, It takes some sort of psychotic thought process to even wrap your head around that!
These are only issues that should come up after someone successfully explains to you Where the people who Tax, make laws, and initiate aggression, derive their "Power" to do so with immunity.
If voting as you say is the very means of expressing liberty, Why does it yield vicious dictators Chavez of Venezuela, Hitler of Germany,As well as Egypt's new ruler.
I think the fact we have been conned into pushing a button (being a tool) to choose who will take our money, tell us what to do, while infiltrating, and spying on us. has increased oppression and decreased liberty in the last 100 years or so. yet we continue to writhe in the quicksand!
Here is a short video that explains the voting process well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb8Rj5xkDPk
The essence of the matter, from a Libertarian point of view, is that when one votes one gives consent for the person he elected to rule over other people, including himself. Therefore, if the politician succumbs to greed, becomes a power-mad tyrant, corrupt, a warmonger, or oppresses the people of this country in any way (which almost all politicians do, as most of them are psychopaths) it is the people who, by their own consent, voted the scumbag into office who are responsible for the negatives that flow from his election. It is they who, as the saying goes, "...have no right to complain." , as they consented to the politicians' rule.
If any person has the right to complain about the corrupt acts of politicians, and the damage done to this country, it is the people who did not vote. This is because, knowing the disposition of almost all men who gain power over others, and more commonly those who purposely seek after such power, to become tyrants, oppressive, and destructive of the peoples' liberties, the Libertarian will not give his consent for such a person to rule over him and the people of this country. It is those who did give their consent by their vote for such a person to rule who have no right to complain.