How about making sure to vote in Democrat primaries to try and screw them up for a change?
Where’s the link?
It is not heaven down here. Regardless ... you have to fight the battles that are important, not only if you are guaranteed to win, but also for those who have come before you and for those who follow.
If you read history at all, you will understand that there are good and evil, that most people choose the easy road, that there are decades, even, where evil runs the show. It does not negate standing for what is right. It does not mean you won’t be killed for that, even. It is just the only road.
This may be the defining statement about the U.S. economy today. It's all over but the aftermath, folks.
The discussion around his main points, however, is quite interesting.
I think a good reason for not voting is to put yourself in a certain frame-of-mind or attitude. If you are voting then your attitude is basically: However corrupt or degraded the system is it is somehow redeemable. There is something I can do politically to change the system.
What Casey and Standsberry are saying is: No. The system is irredeemable. The only proper attitude to take with regard to the current system is an economic one. See what bills get passed and what people get elected and then manage your assets accordingly.
This is a much more self-interested approach, but it just might qualify as truly enlightened self-interest if the system is truly corrupt beyond repair.
There is also an argument for political junkies like Freepers to spend their limited time and attention on local rather than national politics.
Ultimately the national wolves will come to the door, but if your local house is in order you may be able to stave them off until the system collapses and is open for true reform.
His point about voter participation being used to legitimize the tyranny is a good one.
Same goes for communicating with the federal politicians.
interesting.
if you can understand why it is immoral to force human beings to vote, then you have a better argument for not voting then presented above.
that is, it is right that man is also free to protest, to cast a “none of the above” vote. this is apparently what happened in this election to romney (as he couldn’t even garner the level of support mccain got. and mccain, while being a rino, is far more conservative, imo, than romney).
that being said, if the checks, balances and separation of powers still applied in our system of government, it would have been possible to vote the lesser of evils in this election, and perhaps romney would have won. as our Lord could then move the system as an aggregate entity in opposition to the one individual or fool who was “less evil.”
the problem, given my understanding of the Good and my faith, is that the constitutional checks no longer apply, making it very difficult to keep blood and sin off my hands by casting a vote for romney. in ca, it didn’t matter. i was free to write in my vote for a conservative.
in terms of economics, God’s law does indeed apply. we will have inflation and/or stagnation, given the drug addicted mob that is now in charge. the stagnation is the shackle. explosive deflation will be the end result when the fools finally fail.
at this point, sadly, we need to hopefully mange the collapse. i vote, when i morally can, to tactically manage the collapse.
But they always have to tell you about it. Hey! Porter! Go sit in the corner and contemplate your navel.
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Every four years there are claims by one side or the other that this will be the last election ever. The left was saying it about Reagan, and Bush (both of them). The right was saying it about Clinton, and I heard similar 'rumours' about Obama declaring some kind of emergency based on some Reichstag-type incident. Hell, way back when, during Clinton's reign, I gave it some credence given some of the stuff that was going on. What I've come to realize in the years since then, is that the elections are absolutely critical to The Powers That Be, because they are among the primary tools used to legitimize all that the government does to us in our names.
If they cancel national elections for whatever reason, things will get very bad very fast. This is not something they want. A good parasite allows the host to live in order to continue to live itself. Yeah, it can get uncomfortable for the host, but most parasites, which is essentially what the ruling class is, do not purposefully kill their host.
As a nation, we need to realize what is being done to us, and stop playing their games. Ceasing to offer them legitimacy is a small part of that.