Not voting also has very direct, real world consequences as well. Wars, etc.
That’s a ludicrous reach. Let’s forget about the fact that no matter who you voted for in the last presidential election, you would have ended up with a continuation of the wars we are currently involved in and the creation of new battle fronts. The fact of the matter is my vote would not in any way effect the number of wars in which we as a nation are engaged. Meanwhile, no matter who you voted for, you have blood on your hands for putting those people in power who created these wars in the first place. H.J.Res. 114 (107th): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution passed with both parties voting to invade. Unless you only voted for the single independent candidate, you are responsible for the deaths caused by this decision. Laying this violence on the non-voter has no merit or reason.
We as a citizenry haven’t opened the doors to better candidates over decades with a long-term strategy and we’re now seeing the end result.
We have tried only to have our alternative politicians arrested for legally trying to participate in the electoral debate as something other than a Republicrat. The idea that you can introduce a political view in to the debate which does not match up to the current state narrative is a false one. We are only given two choices both of which create the same end result.
Democratic Representatives who voted against the war vastly outnumbered Republicans.
Yet, despite how they and others voted, the result was the same, wasn’t it?
You are a fan of a particular party. You feel your vote is important. I get that. It helps me understand why you so strongly object to my non-traditional participation but I assure you, my choice to not vote won’t hurt you. However, your choice to vote may very well hurt me and others.
The current system is clearly corrupt and in the hands of the oligarchs. By choosing one politician over the other, you may elect someone who starts a war, spends money to shut down abortion clinics, or in some other way, passes a law which restricts the rights and freedoms of another person. Your voting is immoral and violent. It presumes that by electing a person to pass laws concerning the activities of others, this absolves the voter of the violence created by the enactment of seemingly rational laws. However, this is not the case. Those who voted for the politicians who enacted our drug laws are directly responsible for the death, misery, and suffering of the victims of laws based on a single groups morality. The act of voting does not sanitize the voter from the responsibility of unleashing such harm and evil in the world. Those who vote for politicians today are responsible for the blood they will shed tomorrow.
In these discussions you often like to point out how one party is this and the other is that yet after over 200 years of this system they both have cause bloodshed and harm in the name of freedom. By voting, you endorse these actions and the system which produces them.
Why not step in the the light and vote with your feet and your dollars so that you can effect real and positive change?
