Frank Chodorov on Voting

As related by Murray Rothbard,

Frank, in those days, was far more unsentimental and radical about politics than I. I was an ardent “extreme right-wing Republican”, in the days of course when this term meant isolationist and at least partial devotion to the liberty of the individual, and not a racist or enthusiast for the obliteration of any peasant whose ideology might differ from ours. But Frank, even then, would look at me quizzically and want to know why I was concerned with political claptrap; he personally had not voted for decades and had no intention of ever voting again, regardless of the degree of statism of the particular candidate. I replied that extreme right-wing Republicans, though of little hope in rolling back the statist tide, at least would keep things from getting worse. “What’s wrong,” Frank countered, “with things being allowed to get worse?”

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