Stop Telling Me to Vote! An Argument Against Endorsing the Political System

Benjamin Zeman

Every election cycle I have to deal with so many people asking me if I voted and then being shocked, angry or disappointed with me when I say that I don't vote. Maybe I should just say I voted for the Tea Party, is that better? At least I voted right? I have no problem with you voting if that is what you really want to do but I have my reasons for not endorsing this political circus with my vote. I have a right to decline participation in a political system that I believe is corrupted by money, that forces cultural programming and propaganda on us everyday, that is assisting corporate interests in the looting of our wealth and resources, that supports constant wars and military occupation all over the world, that is gradually dumbing down America and has a strong hand in shaping the New World Order.

Voting in America is about giving in to one of two manufactured options. Both options have continually failed us, over and over again, yet we continue to support a political system that cleverly feeds on one of our last bits of freedom; the right to resist the mechanisms of powers that be. Voting is not the last right we have left, so stop telling me it is. We have the right to cognitive liberty, to think for ourselves and act according to those ideas and principles. Every election cycle the machine chews us up, gets us all riled and agitated and then spits us out, excited for a fight and the promise of change that will never come. We are led to believe that our vote gives us a seat behind the steering wheel, but it doesn't. We aren't fighting the machine by voting, we are becoming it.

Our politicians are illusionists, highly skilled at distorting the field of reality. They playfully distract Americans from whats going on behind the scenes, funded by their corporate sponsors. You are constantly being asked to vote against the other party and not for what you believe would be better for our country. You may ask yourself, "what happened to the man I voted for?" or excuse his failures by blaming the opposition of his political rivals but don't give in to the illusion. Do you really think that not voting is what the other political party wants you to do? Are you that afraid that you would vote against your best interests just because you think the other party is more dangerous? Make no mistake, Democrat or Republican, the machine is tethered to corporate interests, big business and the banking elite. There is no great champion of the people, there is no catalyst for change in the two-party system, there is only the illusion that your vote makes a difference and that your candidate will make things better. The masters of political manipulation, the alchemists of internet and television propaganda; they know how to transform opinion and bypass reason, so that they can grab hold of our emotional cords and pull us into their illusion.

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Comment by bryan l on November 3, 2010 at 2:03am: sorry. tara great post! i feel the same. carlin said it best, that voting gives you the illusion of having a choice.

Comment by bryan l on November 3, 2010 at 2:00am: what will it be, a giant douche or a turd sandwich?

Comment by bryan l on November 3, 2010 at 1:57am: this is what my mom sent me!

THANK GOD these damn election ads will end tomorrow?? I mean seriously, as if any of these idiots are even an option to what we have now . . . I've just had it!

Comment by Timothy Hazelip on November 3, 2010 at 1:57am: Excellent! Wonderfully written and people, it's the TRUTH. Hat's off to you having the guts to think for yourself. I love how people ask me if I did and then the shock, like I'm a traitor and they're the Patriot. Just goes to prove, if you choose to do the opposite of the herd, your chances are good of being right. GROUP THINK.

Nice work here...;)

Comment by TheLasersShadow on November 3, 2010 at 1:56am: I understand this viewpoint and its why I vote Libertarian whenever possible not dem or rep. As far as it being an endorsement of the system, yes it is in a way but I think I also send an even larger message when i but more firearms, food and cases of ammo. I have little confidence that voting will do anything more than annoy the NWO and slow them up as we gridlock them in DC. Thats important as recruitment to our cause is growing by the day. Seriously if your not voting your not helping anyone or doing damage to the system which is what war is all about. If your worried about getting jury duty just brush up on jury nullification and let em know your plans to screw their trials in jury selection lol.

Damage was done today by those that voted whether they were endorsing the system or not.

Comment by Marklar on November 3, 2010 at 12:28am: Well, Laser perhaps we win by turning our backs on them to the extent that instead of voting on voting day we show up at the polls or in the streets to protest the illusionary democracy they have engineered and to educate others on WHY we are not voting.

Comment by Tara on November 2, 2010 at 11:04pm: "Tear Down the Walls"........brick by brick, one truth bomb at a time. Whether you vote or not anymore, it really comes down to what you are willing to do in the fight of us against them. Look into the mirror because the answer is in the reflection staring back at you.

Comment by fireguy on November 2, 2010 at 10:41pm: I endorse the political system of voting. It's the corrupt politicians that piss me off. We can fix the machines and the voting problems. Changing peoples hearts is quite another matter.

Comment by Tara on November 2, 2010 at 10:18pm: I don't think anywhere in his argument was he stating to throw your hands up in the air and start firing up the guns. My summary of it is quite the contrary. I think the last paragraph sums things up in a nutshell.

"When you vote, you endorse this system and feed the very monster you want to transform. You have a right to do so, but if you choose not to, you may be guilted into relinquishing your right of refusal or convinced to vote for the "lesser of two evils," but is that what you really want? There is no longer such a thing as a strategic vote, the machine will move forward in the same direction, regardless of which party holds office. The only thing that really makes sense when you see through the lies? Don't vote. Or at least don't vote for the politicians who support the two-party system that you know you oppose. There is a slow rise of alternative candidates who we all know won't win, but that vote is a vote is a form of resistance as well. Whether you vote your conscious or choose not to vote at all, the most important thing is that we continually write, produce art and music, spread the word, work to better our communities and if you have the stomach for it run for local office. Do what you can to disrupt and subvert the mainstream cultural institutions which make this machine work. This is a War we live in and its not Republican vs. Democrat, as you may have been led to believe. The sides are drawn and even though we don't have the same resources that they do, we can still tear down the illusion piece by piece."

Comment by TheLasersShadow on November 2, 2010 at 8:48pm: I think its good policy to use the soap box and the ballot box before resorting to the cartridge box. I sure aint going to throw my hands up in the air because they rig machines and give me bad choices to vote for.

I mean is he implying the only way to win is to wait for them to start a war with us?

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