Before Voting, Watch This Video |
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| By: Dennis Trainor Jr Sunday November 4, 2012 4:36 pm | |
It is estimated that 90 million eligible votes will sit out this election. While there are small handfuls that articulate principled stances against voting, the overwhelming majority is part of an epidemic of indifference or self-imposed impotence.
Why?
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This morning’s Liberty Underground’s newsletter linked to your video, Dennis.
A couple things, one’s silly (you meant ‘epithet’ not ‘epitaph’, but the accidental implication that voters who say you’ll waste your vote if you don’t vote for one of the duopoly’s candidates is funereal…was great!
But more seriously, a refusal to compromise one’s principles and vote third party *precisely in swing states* is a far more worthy act than in states where results are predetermined.
Great interview with Stein. Revolution!
Oh, and here is the link to tonight’s Free and Equal Debate on RT at 9:00 EST.
Before voting, read this:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9698
Ask yourself if a vote for Jill, or Mitt, or the current presididn’t or anyone else is performing your blood-won right/duty, or just a cathartic placebo/ritual to make you feel as though you’ve participated in a system that is actually designed to leave you powerless and exhausted.
The vote counting system looks fishy in Ohio because it’s garnering some attention, not because it’s an anomaly; people are purposefully not bing told what’s going on behind closed doors. Your vote is counted by contractors using software no one can guarantee isn’t rigged.
How is clicking an icon for anyone more important than realizing the act itself can be erased without anyone being the wiser?
“You MUST vote,
you MUST vote,
you MUST vote,
you MUST vote…… ad infinitum.”
I.e. “You MUST believe the system is legitimate.”
Sorry, I don’t believe it is. I believe “participating” in the scam is an act of enabling and submission. So call me stupid, call me a schmuck, call me a conspiracy nut… just don’t call me to vote.
Silly hotdog; we wouldn’t call ya names for that logical position. It doesn’t mean we all agree for some also good and logical reasons, though. ;o)
“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.” – Aldous Huxley
Pretending to live in a democracy is mass delusion, like so many other mass delusions that U.S. citizens fall prey to. Investment bubbles work off of mass delusions, the “War on…” only continues because of mass delusions. Inequality continues because of the mass delusion that “anyone” can prosper in the United States. The propaganda spewing from our screens 24/7 is so effective that U.S. citizens can’t think beyond the programming and indoctrination that began in their childhoods.
I think that as the man says if you live in California or Georgia voting for a third party is a valid option. If you live in Florida or Ohio you might live to regret it.