I don’t vote

I’ve never voted. I never plan to. How I see it what’s the point in deciding which liar I want at the head of government? They’re mostly the same, different sides of the same coin. Voting can be said to be a way to exercise our power as a citizen. After all, if we don’t vote for who we do want, let’s not complain when who we don’t want assumes political office. Yet this would be the case if the whole voting thing were true. Yet what about those who have good grounds for so much disbelief in the voting process entirely? Who know that there is room for gross corruption, rigging, or numbers alteration. Why dedicate time and energy to a process extensively embedded with holes? I also don’t vote, as my anarcho-libertarian philosophical leanings necessitate it. Why is it I get the right to vote for a candidate, yet no one asked for my opinion in establishing the government in the first place? So our consent is only deemed appropriate in some circumstances and not others? Too many times…

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