So what are you trying to say in this post other than calling voters useful idiots?
That they voted for the wrong people? Or they shouldn't have voted at all? Or something else?
To my mind it's little more than an insult to most people. With no advice or recommendations as to what they should or could do to to rectify the situation.
And do you really think that voting will rectify anything? Really?
To rectify any situation for yourself, your friends, family and neighbors no voting is needed. This is all just common sense really.
Tell me about it. What is needed?
Don’t participate in the farce that is this system. Voting enables them to continue. If no one shows up to vote then who can they blame? Political parties are a joke, they are one in the same. It’s all money and the person you see in the public seat there doesn’t make a single decision they just rubber stamp it and put on a good show, because ‘democracy’. No thanks.
"If no one shows up to vote then who can they blame?"
I can't see that happening. In fact I'd go as far as to say it's never going to happen.
So do you have any more practical suggestions.
Doing the same thing every two or four years and expecting a different result is insanity really. People taking care of each other and respecting each other's rights is all that is needed. Not electing some special being to get between us and telling us what we can and cannot do. A slave asking for permission won't work. Now you taking actions to better your situation that might work. Better than hoping for some one you voted for to do it for you.
Now, I'm not telling you what you should be doing, I just know what I'm doing, and it's not voting for someone to save us.
What is needed is people taking responsibility for their own actions.
"Now you taking actions to better your situation that might work."
Sure.. I do that all the time and would do it no matter who was in power.
But that's getting away from the point. There can be a difference depending on who gets into power e.g. If Hilary had won the last election the US would be in a much worse state than it is now. With the trade agreements, Climate change hoax, Massive unemployment, massive immigration etc. etc.
The system is rigged to make you believe you have a say. You don't have any say. You get to choose between theft method 1 or theft method 2. Instead of figuring out who might help me more than the other, I'm trying to figure out how to stop supporting them and ignoring them altogether. Not easy, but the odds of getting results are a lot better than just voting and hoping for the best.
You might find this interesting
https://steemit.com/news/@amd64/anarchists-who-don-t-vote-what-s-the-end-game
I did view the video, great video. I commented on your post. I am also following. Thanks for thew dialog.
Well that's ok if you don't vote but unless you can convince millions of people to do the same, I can't see that it would make any difference.
If the system could be changed to Direct Democracy and/or campaign financing could be tightly restricted and the lobby could be gotten rid of, that could make a difference but I can't see any of those things happening.
But just a smaller number of people voting is unlikely to change anything, unless it was millions less.
Sorry to be so ...well..pessimistic ...I suppose you could say.
I don't need to "convince millions of people" to make a difference on my freedom. Not going to vote for a politician to give to me either. I just go and strive for it on my own. The government cannot give freedom it can only take it away. Do law give you freedom? Does the military beating people p in the middle east give you freedom? If you try to ignore their stupid gameswt, freedom slowly trickles in. Heck, even the constitution does not give you freedom, it only describes it and tries to keep the government hands off of them.