Why I'm refusing to vote
Oh I'm concerned, I'm not apathetically a non voter, I'm a conscientious objector.
In good faith I can no longer vote with the people after the last election and them passing the "defining marriage" amendment into our constitution by an 80% margin even in supposedly "liberal" counties. I do not feel I can pretend the system works at that point.
We are in fact wolves voting the sheep for dinner
And is the sheep smarter for voting no or not voting?
He's going to get eaten either way, but at least one way he can say he didn't pretend he didn't know it was coming.
I don't feel I'm being overly dramatic after the people showed so willing to deny equal civil rights to people they felt weren't spiritually up to their standard. I feel like participating in this corrupt system even to supposedly try to change it is a moral compromise I am unwilling to make. Fairly akin to "if someone is holding your two kids at gunpoint and says to choose one to live or both die, what do you do?" the correct answer in my mind is to refuse to choose.
"A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." We may not quite be to that point yet, but I feel we are beyond any attempt to prevent it.
In good faith I can no longer vote with the people after the last election and them passing the "defining marriage" amendment into our constitution by an 80% margin even in supposedly "liberal" counties. I do not feel I can pretend the system works at that point.
We are in fact wolves voting the sheep for dinner
And is the sheep smarter for voting no or not voting?
He's going to get eaten either way, but at least one way he can say he didn't pretend he didn't know it was coming.
I don't feel I'm being overly dramatic after the people showed so willing to deny equal civil rights to people they felt weren't spiritually up to their standard. I feel like participating in this corrupt system even to supposedly try to change it is a moral compromise I am unwilling to make. Fairly akin to "if someone is holding your two kids at gunpoint and says to choose one to live or both die, what do you do?" the correct answer in my mind is to refuse to choose.
"A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." We may not quite be to that point yet, but I feel we are beyond any attempt to prevent it.