poll on voting

[Psycho4Bud]

This is kind of the wrong wording....in general, you don't vote for a certain individual more than your voting against the other guy.

[MoonStarer420]

You should have had 3rd party as a diffrent selection.
Theres a big diffrence between not voting and voting for a third party. Even if they don't get many votes.

[Oneironaut]

well ok, if you goes by what the anarchistic faq webpage goes then he isnt just some teenage punk running around spraypainting anarchy signs on wallmart... but still an anarchist society, will never exist, at least never in any of our lifetimes or the next generations.

Even if that were true, does that make it an unworthy goal? I don't think so. No more unworthy than, say, advocating for the abolition of slavery in the 15th century. And anyways, as I already mentioned, anarchism isn't about creating a perfect society. There will be no time when we can sit down and say "well we did it, we eliminated all domination of humankind", no more than we will ever get rid of disease or crime. But just because disease and crime aren't going away any time soon doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fight them.

and by not voting and then sitting back and whining about the official that was elected into office it just makes anarchists look like morons, not saying the dude was whining but many of the anarchists i know are like this... anarchy is never going to exist vote to change the current system

We're not complaining about the people elected into office. We're complaining that there are people in office telling everyone else what to do in the first place. If I voted for the other guy, what would that change? Nothing. Voting for who rules over you is not democracy.

Even if I agreed with the whole system and wanted to vote, I'd be forced to make a choice between a few rich white guys with slightly differing agendas on how to run capitalism and the state. I don't get to actually express my ideas. I just have to choose the guy who most closely resembles what I want, and if he disagrees with me on some fundamental issues, too bad, I don't have a choice except for the other guy who I disagree with even more. And then these guys are perfectly free to break any campaign promises once in office.

In an anarchist society, there would be true direct democracy. People would be elected to do administrative tasks, but they wouldn't have any intrinsic authority over other people and would be instantly recallable if the people who elected them disagree with their actions. More importantly, everybody would get to express their real beliefs on the issues that affect them, and their individual opinions would matter, not the opinion of the guy who happens to have the charisma to charm the largest percentage of voters into letting him think for them.

[BizzleLuvin]

voted for badnarik

[Psycho4Bud]

You should have had 3rd party as a diffrent selection.
Theres a big diffrence between not voting and voting for a third party. Even if they don't get many votes.

Well we had Ross Perot for a while there....him and the brain dead V.P. candidate.

[God v2.0]

I dont live on Earth but if I did I would have done a write in for myself.

[mr pink06]

papers in the UK have cost around about 30p for smalls and 80p for kings and its been like that FOREVER HAHAHAHA
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