Gunny G: Voting Just Encourages The Tawdry Bastards… ~ Be Patriotic: Don’t Vote by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Etc.
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Murray Rothbard once wrote that even the most brutal dictator ultimately bases his power on the opinions that are held by a majority of the population that is under his rule. After all, even dictators with large armies tend to be vastly outnumbered by the populations they rule over, and revolution is always on the dictator’s mind. That’s probably how he gained power himself in the first place — the previous dictator was, well, too dictatorial and created the conditions for his own overthrow.Democratic regimes also base their legitimacy on their ability to claim that their rule is “the will of the people.” They believe in democracy with all their will, they tell us, so much so that generations of American politicians have believed that it was legitimate to wage war on other nations and to kill thousands of their citizens to impose “democracy” on them. Lincoln’s armies killed some 300,000 fellow citizens and maimed for life an even greater number, supposedly so that “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” i.e., democracy, shall not perish from the earth.
This of course was pure B.S.: Had the South seceded peacefully, democracy would have still existed in the U.S., the Confederate States of America, Canada, England, France, etc., etc.
Nevertheless, that was an official purpose of the war, and of numerous other American wars. Woodrow Wilson brought America into World War I to supposedly “make the world safe for democracy.” We are now supposedly bringing democracy to Iraq at bayonet point with numerous other Middle East countries in our sights.
via Be Patriotic: Don’t Vote by Thomas J. DiLorenzo.
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Why I Don’t Vote
A lot of people have asked me why I do not vote.
1) Voting is the sacrament of the civil religion. I’m a political atheist.
2) Not voting bugs the regime, and no wonder. Such abstinence, like not complying in other ways, weakens them. What if they held an election and nobody came?
3) It’s a pain in the neck.
4) Your vote doesn’t count, unless the election is decided by a single vote. You are far more likely to be killed on the way to the polls than to have that happen.
5) The candidates itch to rule others. There is no lesser evil.
6) Politics is not our salvation. Indeed, the whole system is corrupt from top to bottom.
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NON-VOTING ARCHIVE
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/non-vote-arch.html
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Well I think as long as we are giving each country in the world millions and millions of dollars each year, we buy the right to have some influence in their government which should be performing to provide for it’s people so that we do not have to. Imposing on the people a form of government by military force is probably a little over the top though.
Simple solution to the problem, quit giving away all of our money to people who will just screw us in the end. Seriously we need to stop this money giveaway program our government has going. We can not afford to keep our country afloat, why should we be trying to keep every other country in the world going.
Stop all foreign aid, stop all social giveaway programs unless the recipients are proven to be sincerely in need of help and deserving. Stop all the payments to the American Indians. I think that we paid that bill off a long time ago. I didn’t do anything to the Indians and am tired of paying them for getting their ass’s kicked by my ancestors (maybe). They are citizens just like the rest of us and need to start acting like it and quit burdening our country with their lazy, welfare mentality. Cut the salary of all government employe’s so it falls in line with civilian salaries. If we make these changes we will be in pretty good shape economically in no time.
I know — everyone is not going to agree with this but that is the way I see it and I have been professing these issues for about 20 years now. If they had been changed 20 years ago we would probably be in pretty good shape right now.
Rowdy
Oops I forgot. I do hope that Lew meant to say in #5 above that there is no greater evil rather than no lesser evil.
Rowdy
Good reading from among these gentlemen…though a questionable source…
The Ideologues
Who are the intellectuals who form the core of the modern neo-Confederate movement? And what exactly do they think?
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/winter/the-ideologues?page=0,0
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