Here are some of the most common canards that
political party operatives use to argue against not
voting:
1. NOT VOTING IS DOING NOTHING
If you're doing something wrong, or something
that is self-destructive or hurting others, stopping
might be a good idea. If delegating your power to
people you can't hold accountable has resulted in
the devastation of your economy, do you really
want to keep doing it? If granting your authority to
people you can't hold accountable has resulted in
wars based on lies that have killed over a million innocent people, do you really want to keep doing it?
If granting your consent of the governed to people
you can't hold accountable has resulted in government operating on behalf of big corporations and
the wealthy instead of on behalf of the people, do
you really want to keep doing it?
2. IF WE DON'T VOTE THE BAD GUYS
WILL WIN
We've been voting. When did the good guys win?
Besides, it is often hard to tell the good guys from
the bad guys. Suppose Gore had won, and then
died of a heart attack. Do you think the Democrats
who voted for him would have been happy with Joe
Lieberman as President? Besides, Gore actually did
win the popular vote. The Supreme Court stopped
the vote count and put Bush in office. So just because the good guys win doesn't mean that they get
to take office. Kerry also won the popular vote, but
before anyone could finish counting the votes, he
had to break both his promises, that he wouldn't
concede early and that he would ensure that every
vote was counted, in order to get the bad guy back
in office again. Our Constitution was written to
ensure that those who owned the country would
always rule it, so the popular vote can be overruled
by the Electoral College, Congress, the Supreme
Court, or by the winning candidate conceding, and
is not the final say. Even if we had accurate, verifi-
able vote counts, and everyone who voted, voted
for a good guy, it doesn't mean that good guy could
take office unless the Electoral College, Congress,
and the Supreme Court allowed it. Even then, the
good guy might fear that the Security State might
assassinate him they way they killed JFK, and either
concede or stop being a good guy in order to survive. The Supreme Court, of course, has the Constitutional power to intervene on any pretext, and its
decisions, no matter how unconstitutional, irrational, unprecedented, or even downright insane, can
not be appealed, so they do have the final say.
3. IF YOU DON'T VOTE,
YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN
What good does complaining do? When successive
administrations of both parties tell you that they
will not allow public opinion to influence policy
decisions, you can complain all you want and it
won't do you any good. But you don't need to vote
to have the right to complain. The Declaration of
Independence is a long list of complaints against a
king by colonists who were not allowed to vote. The
right to gripe is one of those unalienable rights that
is not granted by governments or kings. If you're
treated unjustly, you have the right to complain. A
lot of people who voted for Obama are now angry
with his policies and are complaining loudly. He
couldn't care less.
4. IT IS A CITIZEN'S RESPONSIBILITY
AND CIVIC DUTY TO VOTE
Only if the government holding the election has
secured your civil and human rights. If it has not, if
it has instead become destructive of your civil and
human rights, "...it is the Right of the People to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
~ Declaration of Independence
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