Oddbean new post about login | logout The current system does not vanish just because liberty advocates stop voting. The establishment does not care if the liberty right votes or not. In fact, they would rather that the liberty contingent does not vote since rigging elections is harder the more votes they need to rig. Separating money from the state and voting with our feet and capital is the primary method of pressuring jurisdictions to align with individual liberties and property rights.
Well, yes. But that's also part of not participating. I don't expect the whole system to change just because I leave, but, if enough people just ignore it, it won't be able RI function since it is fueled by how much attention we give it.
It would be easy to ignore it when the State is small enough. But when politicians and their stupid policies invade your way of life. Is time to participate. And, never the State is small enough, LOL
I don't think the state deserves any participation since I believe the whole institution of the state is actually fundamentally evil at this point. I do not wish to participate in increasing evil in the world, therefore I will not participate in this state, at least as much as I am able to at this point.
Fair. In Chile we don't have much choice. Vote is obligatory, if I don't vote, I'll have to pay a fine. For politicians is a very profitable business, because they get money for every vote. Some are candidates just for that. They know they'll will lose an election, but they are there just for the money. My vote this year will be void, so no one gets a single dime from my ballot. And I'll have the oportunity to draw some meme.
That's an awful system. 🫂
Not just awful. It is also immoral within the law. Furthermore, the Communist Party uses the weaknesses of the democratic system to destroy everything it touches. Including democracy, of course. For example, in Santiago, the capital of Chile, they register people from other cities as inhabitants of Santiago so that they appear as voters of that city. All with the same address, a hotel room that "houses" thousands of people. LOL. What does the opposition do, postulate someone of "clean wheat"?no. They postulate as candidate someone who has similar ideas of politics and who defends those bad habits. They are accomplices. The only possible thing to do in these cases is to cancel the vote.