I offer here an idea to drive a stake into the heart of the ruling elite while requiring no effort, no rallies, no demonstrations, and no violence. It can be done sitting on our asses, in fact, that’s a requirement. We hijack the nonvoting majority. There are many well-reasoned articles about not voting.
One of my favorites is by Doug Casey https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-caseys-top-five-reasons-not-to-vote/. I stopped voting after Reagan grew the government by 30%. If he couldn’t stem the malignant growth of the federal government I reasoned, no one could. Like any parasite, the government would grow until it killed off the host. I did vote for Ron Paul in the two republican primaries but I knew it was merely symbolic.
Not only was he not allowed to win, if he came close they would have killed him, like Jack Kennedy, another reason I gave up on the evil that is voting in a corrupt regime. It was sort of hard sticking toit early on, not getting sucked into the red/blue bullshit hype. In time I grew to love my nonvoting status.
It gave me a perspective that wound up being refreshing and enlightening. I became a spectator in the bleachers emotionally detached from the outcome which I could not affect in any case. I became bulletproof to nitwits like W Bush. I could see through the dapper, skin rash deep facade of Obama and the horny carnival barker who followed him. I wasn’t being played. The big picture came gradually into focus. I could see through the ruling elite’s machinations and tricks to lead the voting wildebeests down their desired path. I became a proud nonvoter. It’s not a fashionable position I know but that can change.
There is a new paradigm perhaps worth developing that could radically reset the equation. In the last presidential election out of 230 million eligible voters, almost half, 97 million did not vote. That left 130 million who did. Split that number in half to represent the 2016 percentages of democratic and republican voters and you have about 65 million each. So the vast majority of eligible voters stayed home rather than join the red-blue circle jerk. The establishment press, ever the teacher’s pets, labeled nonvoters lazy and apathetic giving them cover to ignore the other obvious reason; that the abstainers regard voting as a hopeless and pointless exercise, two paths to the same cage. Is my confirmation bias showing or are disillusioned trumpsters getting wise to the democracy scam in increasing numbers?
Yes sir, it has turned into the rope around our necks, nothing more, nothing less. I am encouraged with articles from Wes and David and some others, they chip away at lies being spued by the propaganda press, they had some of the same printing the truth before the last revolutionary war, it would be a sad day indeed without NCRenegade, thank you for all you do.
This is a nice and reasonable PERSONAL concept, but only from the point of view of “striking a personal blow” or in regard to salving your own injury. It will have no broad appeal and certainly not go viral or become a word virus. .In fact, it will have almost have no appeal at all. No matter what is done or said, the same relative proportion of our society will continue to vote. Period.
There are and will be no numbers here to make a movement. It’s the same problem with those who advocate more extreme and efficient measures. While I might agree that extremism works, not 1 in a 100,000 believes that and not 1 in a million will participate in it. For both concepts, microscopic numeric support directly equates to zero numeric support.
Your “supposing” example of taking the Republican voters off the table also suggests that you do not even understand the basic nature of the real problem we face.
So, strike a personal blow in order to make yourself feel better? Yes.
A meaningful or practical idea? Far from it.
I see it as far more than that. The russian revolution is attributed to “bolsheviks”. The word means “majority”. They were never a majority. The mockingbird media has convinced communists that they are a majority, and even patriots often buy into the idea that they are a minority.
By wearing “I didn’t vote” stickers, or other “merch”, we can show we do *not* support the “narative”, without espousing *any* viewpoint that can be attacked. (other than the laughable argument of a “social contract” I never consented to, making voting a civic duty)
The only argument against this I can think of, is an argument to “stay in the closet” until the last minute… which I get. That also is something of “our” nature: for us violence is more a switch, which, at it’s extreme means: If you *can* avoid violence, you must… and if you *can’t*, you must escalate it exponentially, until it stops, one way or another.
Alot of room for thought here, but I don’t see value it suppressing this movement.
It is downright foolish and irresponsible to Not vote. Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s; if you pay taxes, VOTE! “Evil triumphs when good people do nothing.” (As Christians we want to make sure that Freedom of Worship & Freedom of Speech, to name a few, are obvious examples to advance the Gospel.) “When the righteous rule, the people rejoice, when the Unrighteous rule the people hide/grumble.” -- Proverb
Martha, LBJ was the big pusher for the churches becoming 501c3 tax exempt status. He wanted to be sure the pulpits weren’t protesting the body bags coming back from the Vietnam war.
The unrighteous do rule now including from the pulpits. Had the denominational heads resisted the lockdown tyranny and not told the sheeple that Jesus would’ve taken the jab, many would have taken a stand.
Instead, they promote the Democrat/Republican venue, which is professional wrestling with expensive suits and high heels and young interns surrounding their congressional bosses.
In the book of Acts, each one reached one. Anyone can go to a booth and pull a curtain. The tough part is to look someone in the eye and challenge the narrative they have been fed.
Do the Amish vote?
they ones by me do.
Are those who don’t foolish and irresponsible?
One writer I’ve not seen mentioned on this site is Gary Barnett. He has a website and lives in Montana. He’s been fighting tyranny for years.