Tag: Voting
YOU CAN’T VOTE YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS
Hat tip Walt
WHAT IF ONLY TAXPAYERS VOTED?
VOTING IN MEXICO
The Choice
Guest Post by Eric Peters
Libertarians face a tough choice this fall – chiefly because Libertarians have no desire to choose a “leader” for themselves or anyone else. The ideal choice would be to not have to choose at all. For us each to make choices for ourselves only – and leave everyone else alone.
Unfortunately, we’ll be forced to make a different choice. Note the italics.
We’ll be forced to choose.
Voting in a coercive/collectivist society – which is the type of society we live in – is a defensive act. Like putting up your hands when someone throws a punch at you. Sometimes, you have to do it. When you haven’t got any other choice.
Voting for Trump may fall into this category.
Obviously, he is not a Libertarian. But I think a case can be made that it’s important to vote for him. It may be the most important vote any of us will ever cast. For one reason only.
Trump opposes The Wars.
It is why he is hated by the establishments of both parties (which are functionally the same party). And that is a compelling reason to support the guy.
Jailhouse Rock the Vote
Guest Post by Stilton Jarlsberg
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Members of the GOP are loudly complaining about Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s executive order to restore the voting rights of 206,000 felons who are (ahem) “likely Democratic voters” just in time for the general election in November.
McAuliffe said that the 150 year old law which he unilaterally rescinded was originally put in place to suppress the rights of black voters, suggesting that he thinks the words “black” and “felon” are entirely interchangeable. Which, sadly and statistically, is pretty much the case here.
He also suggests that if the GOP is unhappy about this new voting bloc (or cellbloc), they need to “quit complaining and earn ex-felon’s votes,” perhaps by adopting Hillary’s inspiring proposals to get tough on cops, empty the prisons, and send convicted criminals to all-expense-paid colleges where they can use whomever’s bathrooms – or showers – they feel like.
Then again, perhaps in the heat of this tortuous election cycle Hope n’ Change is being too cynical. After all, it’s not like Governor McAuliffe has any suspicious political ties to Hillary Clinton.
Well, other than being her Presidential campaign manager in 2008…
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THE AMERICAN VOTER
2016 VOTER’S GUIDE
Hat tip Joe
TWO FACED HARRY
VOTING TO DESTROY THE ESTABLISHMENT
“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Taleb is a prickly arrogant SOB who doesn’t give a crap what intellectuals, academics, and other establishment elitists think about him. He has an Ivy league MBA, but despises everything about the curriculum of Ivy League MBA programs. He has a PhD, but scorns academics and their worship of theories and models. He enjoys poking holes in the storylines of the propaganda spewing corporate media. He glories in ridiculing the predictions of captured “experts” mouthing the talking points of whichever corporate interest is paying them blood money.
I read his brilliant Black Swan book back in 2008. It was a difficult read, but there were so many gems of wisdom throughout the book, it was a powerful tome predicting the financial collapse in real time. He wrote it in 2006. He understands the world doesn’t operate the way Ivy League models say it is supposed to operate. The world is propelled by black swans, not a normal distribution of the world. He was right in 2006 and he’s right now. The paragraph below has been making the rounds in the alternate media this past week. The establishment media would never publicize it, as their job is to protect the crumbling social order.
Pictorial Essay: Message to the Voting Cattle
Our own awesome ‘wip’ posted this video in another thread, and asked me to listen to it. I did, and it’s freaking fabulous. I agree with about 95% of it. It explains as well as I’ve ever heard, why I say we should all vote for Candidate Nobody.
Here is the video:
Of course, not 1 in 20 will listen to a twenty-minute video, even here. So, I transcribed it. And, added some pictures for your viewing pleasure. You should be able to read it in under ten minutes. I did this for you curs and Trump-eteers. And, to send out to my brain dead friends and family, which are Legion.
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Elite & their Undemocratic Superdelegates/Electoral College
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Most people are clueless as to the legality of what they are doing when they vote. You think you are voting for a candidate, you do NOT. You actually do not vote for candidates, you vote for delegates to represent you only on the first vote at the convention and then they are “Free” to vote whomever THEY want – not you. Even in the national election, you technically and legally do not vote for candidates. You vote for delegates to represent you in the Electoral College process. You never actually vote for a person.
The audacity of Mit Romney to come out and bash Trump yet not endorsing anyone else was a blatant play to be drafted by the Republican elite looking to rob the people of any Democratic process. Romney is deeply entrenched within the elite. In July 2012, Cheney used his Wyoming home to host a private fund-raiser for Romney, which netted over $4 million in contributions from attendees for Romney’s campaign. If Romney were to be President, Cheney would not be far away hiding in the shadows.
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Just Shut Up and Vote: The Futility of Representative Government in an Age of Robber Barons
Guest Post by John W. Whitehead
Despite the fact that we’ve been burned before, most Americans continue to allow themselves to be bamboozled into casting their votes for one candidate or another, believing that this time they mean what they say, this time they really care about the citizenry, this time will be different.
Of course, it never turns out differently.
We are as easily discarded the day after the elections as we were wantonly wooed in the months leading up to the big day. Those same politicians who were once so eager to pose for our pictures, smile at our jokes, and glad-hand us for our votes will, upon being elected, retreat behind a massive, impenetrable wall that ensures we are not seen or heard from again—at least, until the next election.
The joke is on us.
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, all of the caucuses, primaries, nominating conventions, town hall meetings, rallies, meet and greets, delegates and super-delegates are sophisticated schemes aimed at advancing the illusion of participation culminating in the reassurance ritual of voting.
It’s not about Red Republicans or Blue Democrats. It’s about Green Donors—i.e, those with money who can afford to pay for access.
It works the same with every politician and every party.
OBEY
“Democracy Is Overrated” Doug Casey’s Top 5 Reasons Not To Vote
Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com,
Democracy is vastly overrated.
It’s not like the consensus of a bunch of friends agreeing to see the same movie. Most often, it boils down to a kinder and gentler variety of mob rule, dressed in a coat and tie. The essence of positive values like personal liberty, wealth, opportunity, fraternity, and equality lies not in democracy, but in free minds and free markets where government becomes trivial. Democracy focuses people’s thoughts on politics, not production; on the collective, not on their own lives.
Although democracy is just one way to structure a state, the concept has reached cult status; unassailable as political dogma. It is, as economist Joseph Schumpeter observed, “a surrogate faith for intellectuals deprived of religion.” Most of the founders of America were more concerned with liberty than democracy. Tocqueville saw democracy and liberty as almost polar opposites.
Democracy can work when everyone concerned knows one another, shares the same values and goals, and abhors any form of coercion. It is the natural way of accomplishing things among small groups.
But once belief in democracy becomes a political ideology, it’s necessarily transformed into majority rule. And, at that point, the majority (or even a plurality, a minority, or an individual) can enforce their will on everyone else by claiming to represent the will of the people.
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