Voting Is a Mug’s Game

I am spammed unmercifully by the killer-spender-spies of DC, GOP division. I never look at Marco Rubio’s or the others. But today, for some reason, I opened Mike Lee’s. He was urging me to regimethink, that is, to vote. Why?

National Security is on the ballot. Amnesty is on the ballot. Obamacare is on the ballot. Obama’s lawlessness is on the ballot. Fiscal responsibility, the national debt, and out-of-control spending are on the ballot. Respect for life is on the ballot.

Thanks, Mike, for a list of things you crony, warmongerers will do nothing about (except spend more of my money on the merchants of death). As to why I belong to the largest party in America, the Non-Voters, here are a few reasons:

1) It is important to our rulers that I vote for Creep R over Creep D, or Creep D over Creep R, to show my allegiance to the biggest, richest, most destructive State on the planet.

2) Voting is the sacrament of the State religion. I’m a non-communicant.

3) Voting is a pain in the neck. I’d have to park at some ugly government facility, wait in line, and be ordered around by functionaries.

4) Voting means I believe in political democracy, that is, that the majority has the right to rule the minority.

5) My vote would not count, unless the election were decided by one vote.

Folks, not voting is your right. Exercise it while you still can.

UPDATE from Jay Stephenson:

I was still a “voter” the morning of the last presidential election in2012 and lived only a block away from my local polling place.  I gothome from work that day about 5pm and made the short walk to thepolling place only to be told that my precinct had changed and that Iwould have to drive several miles to another location in order tovote.  After I stopped home feeling frustrated that I was about to bestuck in traffic a good portion of the night, I decided to take theadvice of yourself and George Carlin and not vote.  What a liberatingfeeling!  I watched ESPN that whole night and didn’t even payattention to the returns.  And here’s a little secret: You are allowedto complain if you don’t vote.  I complain all the time and so farnobody’s been able to stop me.

UPDATE from Tim Moriarty:

Today you wrote, “Folks, not voting is your right. Exercise it while you still can.”

Some might laugh, but it’s a reality in other countries, to include Australia. In 2005 an Aussie friend visited me during a multi-country trip around the world and, among other things, he mentioned that voting is required in his country and there are fines for not doing so.

I’ve done a quick check online and you’ll find more information on the subject here.

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12:23 pm on October 30, 2014