Guest Post by The Zman
Donald Trump finally got the attention of Republican leaders the other day when he said that unless they addressed the 2020 election shenanigans, his supporters will not bother to vote in upcoming elections. This got the usual suspects out to denounce him as a Hitler plotting to do Hitler things. Regime media was flooded with boilerplate articles about how there was no evidence to support his claims. Some Republicans were sent out to denounce him for his dangerous rhetoric.
This little bit of drama is interesting in that it suggests that some portion of the electorate is making the next logical step. If you cannot get what you want at the ballot box, either because the vote is rigged or the choices are false, then why vote? If those conditions are true, then voting becomes self-sabotage. When you vote, you are endorsing the process and its results. Voting in a rigged election is, in effect, validating the rigged process and the people rigging it.
The fact that it has taken close to a year for anyone to reach this next logical step in evaluating the last election shows the power of conditioning. Everyone has been conditioned since childhood to believe that voting is a requirement of citizenship and not voting is therefore an abdication of duty. You cannot complain about the system if you do not participate in the system is the logic of democracy. The only acceptable participation is voting for one of the two parties.
It is a bizarre logic when you consider it. Popular entertainment is full of plots where the star is faced with two bad choices and refuses to accept them. Instead, he creates a third choice to save the day. Every business school trains students on how to think beyond the choices on offer. “Thinking outside the box” is considered to be the hallmark of the modern entrepreneur. People like Elon Musk are celebrated because they allegedly refuse to accept the conventional answer.
Only in politics is it that no one is ever allowed to question the options put forward by the two political parties each election. This exception to the rule of thinking outside the box is necessary because the system requires it. For example, if “none of the above” was an option in most elections, that would often be the winner. This is why it is never an option on the ballot. Otherwise, even the dullest Republican voter would begin to think that maybe he should have another option.
Of course, one of the weapons that the system has always used to prevent people from thinking outside the box regarding politics is hyper-partisanship. “If you don’t vote for more of the same, the other side will win.” This was the standard line from people like Jonah Goldberg in the Bush years. Staying home was a vote for the other side, so you had to hold your nose and vote for the Republicans. It was effective until 2006 when the odor was so bad that no amount of nose holding was possible.
The neocons conveniently forgot about that in 2016, but they went to great effort to avoid saying they would boycott the election. Even they saw the danger of unleashing that option on the system. Conservative Inc. was mortally wounded when they could not explain how their boycott of Trump was not an endorsement of Clinton. They were either voting for what they said was evil or they were boycotting the election, something they said was morally unacceptable.
That last bit has always been a lie. Boycotting elections has been a part of democratic systems since forever. During the Cold War, the United States government would encourage boycotts in places being subverted by communists. Alternatively, the protest vote has always been a part of the American system. Organizing people to throw their vote away on a ridiculous option is just another form of boycott. You are forcing onto the ballot the words “none of the above”.
Getting back to Trump and his boycott claim, he was never more than a wrecker, which is what the times require. He will never organize a boycott or even completely endorse such a campaign. He will talk about it. For good or ill, if he talks about something it becomes news. Just mentioning the idea of boycotting the midterm is more than enough to normalize the idea for unhappy voters. Sitting out, perhaps loudly sitting out the election, becomes the best way to participate.
If you look at the upcoming midterm, there are maybe 25 seats that are genuinely up for grabs with another 25 that might tip that way. The Democrats currently hold 220 seats and the Republicans 212 seats. The seats that will decide the House will be won with just over 50% of the vote in those districts. In other words, even a poorly organized boycott could prevent the Republicans from getting the House. It is a low cost, high reward strategy to send a message.
Now, even a highly organized national boycott of the midterms, where Democrat voters join in will change little in terms of policy. The people who control the two parties will remain in control. What changes is public perception of politics. This system requires the broad public to think voting matters. If they come to see that voting is just ceremonial, a play put on to keep them pacified, then the system cracks. At the minimum, it brings the system to crisis.
There are no easy answers to generational problems, but normalizing the idea of a boycott helps create a morality outside the prevailing orthodoxy. If 20% of people think that boycotting the system is the moral choice, they are in effect rejecting the morality of the established order. It is a peaceful revolt. Once people get used to revolting in their minds, they can revolt against the system. Normalizing the revolt of the mind is a prerequisite for any challenge to the prevailing order.
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The Uniparty will simply manufacture the votes they need.
No need to vote. The outcome is predetermined.
Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me.
It’s been going on for decades, Trump just put it out in the public eye.
can’t get fooled again.
I’ve often wondered, if nobody showed up to vote, would politicians go away?
Nope, just like in the other banana republics the glorious victor will claim a vast majority voted for them, and the media will proclaim the winner the most popular leader evah. If I learned anything from the last election, its, voting does not matter.
What we need on the ballots is a box that says “eliminate this position”.
We just need the incessant simmering insurgency that every other banana republic has.
It sure as hell didn’t take me a year to come to the conclusion that voting even HARDERER next time wasn’t a winning strategy. It hit me the day after they stopped the counting when they tried to tell me Biden got 81 million votes.
The videos of suitcases full of ballots getting pulled from under tables after the counting was supposedly stopped or of vans full of ballots pulling up to the backs of counting buildings or stopping the count in 5 counties AT THE SAME TIME, all of this and much more was just icing on the cake.
The stole this election from us. We elected DJT, for all his faults, he was the man for the job.
My vote is pointless here in WA, the fraud is really baked into the cake. Our R pols obviously don’t give a fuck. They all have the attitude of Tom “let’s move on” Cotton. Anyone that thinks we have representation in DC is fucking insane. We have blowhards like Jim Jordan getting face time and slinking off to count his google donations.
I am keeping this list of GOP lawmakers who originally objected to Nov’20 certification. Not a single one from WA state – what a disgrace!
My in-laws, normally conservative thinking people, are aghast when I say the time for voting is over. Perhaps at the local level, voting can remedy the ills of a school board gone rogue, but state and national elections have proven beyond doubt to be tainted.
The time for the ballot box has passed and soon the ammo box becomes necessary.
I have exercised my right to vote since I was eligible in Reagan’s second term but I am not so blind as to see the futility of continuing to do so.
Stay aware and be prepared, friends
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Dominion machines and mail-in ballots are not voting, they are a sham, a pretense of legitimacy. So long as those exist I will never bother to vote again. Just look at how Newsome was ‘re-elected’ in CA. The last election opened my eyes to the fact that we no longer have a country or rule of law, we have a banana republic controlled by democrats (republicans are there as scenery) and promoting their agenda is all that will be happening henceforth.
The soap box (request for relief of grievances) has failed. The jury box (supreme court) has failed. The ballot box (voting fraud) has failed. What else is left?
I have been an Election Judge in MD since 2008. In 2012 election (Obama vs, Romney) my job was the voting machines.
Romney won 8 out of 10 machines, it wasn’t even close. Myself and the Chief Judge are the last 2 to leave, taking the vote total to County Headquarters Office. a 40 min. commute…. 10 minutes in, the radio announced Obama won MD, while the votes were in my rear view mirror.
Fact
Germany hand counts everything. No machines. If they can, we can.
If we tried a hand count the people doing it would probably be BLM.
Maf too hard for them…..
That’s not what he said.
It’s bad enough when the leftists lie, but it’s insufferable when pundits on the right can’t even look up what a person says before they write their erroneous articles.
Everybody in the media has TDS, it seems.
I don’t pay a damned bit of attention to what Trump says, so … enlighten us as to his actual statement.
Stay asleep, sheep.
The commie blue state I’m stuck in PASSED a ballot measure to allow “Residents of the state who are not US residents” to VOTE. I don’t feel there is ANY point anymore. I don’t plan to vote in state or federal elections, probably local though.
Why hasn’t this been challenged in court I’m wondering. Where is the GOP? Our state constitution clearly states it is the governor’s DUTY to repel invasion, not assist in one.
I stopped voting in national elections 35 years ago and never looked back. Rather than participate in a predetermined farce I prefer the realism that comes from not pretending to have a stake in the outcome and the solace knowing I’m on to their scam.
I didn’t vote until my late 20s. Then, I voted religiously for about 12 years (federal, state, and local). I last voted for president in 2008 (I wrote in Ronald Reagan). I stopped voting entirely two years later.
It just doesn’t matter.
Still wish the NOTA thing would have gotten some traction.
Nota was a movement to allow every election to have a standard choice of NONE OF THE ABOVE for a new election. If NOTA got 50.1 % it called for a new election with the last contestants banned from the revote.
no vote has my vote.
It is amazing to see the Fox talking heads gleefully reporting on the VA governor’s race as a virtual tie at this point. Until and unless the criminal management of the voting process is addressed, the GOP contender could be 99% ahead in the polls and it will not matter come election night. Their dismissal of the truth of the theft in November (and January in GA), has allowed this cancer to grow without penalty.
I highly doubt that Youngkin will be restoring anything close to freedom in the state (he has already indicated huge support for more theft to support the monopoly day prison system to an even greater degree despite its indoctrination of kids, and much more along the big government lines), but so long as Dominion or Stacey Abrams, or whomever, controls the voting machines and the count, Terry is a shoe in.
The elections are just another corrupt system anymore meriting withdrawl. Been voting since 1982, but the 2020 election was the last straw. I will not vote anymore, nor be registered to vote unless they fix the election fraud of 2020. I withdraw my consent for these elections and will not participate. I don’t need Trump to tell me that.
‘When you vote, you are endorsing the process and its results.’
Tax is theft and government is organised crime. When you vote, you become an accessory.
It could also be argued that you’re aiding and abetting terrorists.
Abstain from beans.
Personally, I don’t give a crap what Trump said. I am not voting because the Republicans could stop these mandates in a second but they’d rather people die or lose their jobs and injure/kill children and keep their donations from Big Pharma.
In Canuckistan, some provincial elections (sort of) allow a “vote to boycott the vote”. Ontario, along with Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are the only provinces that allow voters to decline their vote. Going to the polls and declining to vote sends a signal: it’s an official way to say you’re not happy with the political system as it stands and it’s recorded in the election books.
Per Ontario election law: “An elector who has received a ballot and returns it to the deputy returning officer declining to vote, forfeits the right to vote and the deputy returning officer shall immediately write the word ‘declined’ upon the back of the ballot and preserve it to be returned to the returning officer and shall cause an entry to be made in the poll record that the elector declined to vote.”
In 2014, the number of Ontario voters who declined their ballot hit a 40-year high. Nearly 30,000 people officially declined their ballot, which accounted for 0.61 per cent of all votes tallied.
What’s even more interesting is that should there be, in any riding, more declined ballots than votes for any one of the candidates, none of those candidates can ever be carried on a future ballot. It’s never happened, of course, but how many voters even know this?
Imagine if all voters who stayed home instead of voting simply did this instead. Every single MPP would be banished from running for provincial office for life – a clean sweep!
Unfortunately, no equivalent exists at the federal level.
Thx for the prospective. Mass boycotting of voting, especially at the federal level, would scream at the two parties, and the world, that millions of Americans understand that the OnePartyState is illegitimate, and therefore all options are on the table.
“That voting is just ceremonial” has been widely known in the former Soviet Union. This didn’t prevent their system from going strong for like 76 years.
2020 was the last time I voted. I will consider voting again only after at least a few people get sent to prison for what has happened in November. Until that time I am trusting that GOP can play the same game the Dems did – if one side can cheat then so can the other. Neither side then needs voters.
I suspect that the Republican establishment has been participating in the fraud for quite some time (here’s lookin’ at you, Mitch McConnell). The winners and losers are divvied up in backrooms.
It’s kabuki theater: the Republicans are there to maintain a pretense that there’s an opposition party. The Democrats are there to keep fooling the growing ranks of poor so they won’t riot (except when useful during election years).
It’s a uniparty controlled by forces unseen: the CCP; central bankers / uber wealthy (and …?).
hanging chads 2: electric boogaloo.
tl;dr: it’s always been rigged.