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Yes. That’s right. I said it…. “Don’t Vote”. Anti-American? Anti-Democratic? Or actually 100% Democratic?
We’ve been force-fed for years to believe that not-voting is un-American, lazy, powerless, and “part-of-the-problem-not-solution”.
But, how well has Government been serving us? Us, the People?
We turn out in numbers to create “change”, yet we move the needle from one extreme to the other and it usually moderates right down the middle. Have we really seen the great “change” required by Government for the current World situation? All systems seem to be failing at a colossal hyper-speed. Maybe it’s time to end Government as we know it?
Maybe "We the People" have such rights to seek and create a new form of Government - a Global committee that abolishes “Nationalism” and separateness. No more “us vs. them”. True Unity. It’s always a power grab, and “balance” is an illusion. Maybe the World needs to Unite in a way never attempted, at a time when most critical…
Therefore I present the notion of “not voting”. Imagine if at one Election, NO ONE actually voted. Would this not send a message to Government? Could this effectively bring the End of Big Government as we know it, or at least a start?
Yes, I realize that this may be far too unrealistic, that for this to work it would need to literally be EVERYONE not voting. Yes it may never work and Anarchy and Chaos could occur. But maybe if not even an actual action, maybe at least the thought of this could create the kind of Spark required for Real Change?
After all, isn’t “Democracy” defined as a “political form of government derived from the people”? Is not the “power” of government supposedly within the “people”? Aren’t WE the PEOPLE?? Doesn’t “Democracy” equate to “Equality” and “Freedom”? If “every vote has equal weight”, perhaps every “non-vote” is also equal and in fact a type of vote?
In this time of Our Greatest Transition, we do need Change. But sometimes Change is required at radical levels. So let us consider the Greatest Vote of Our Time may be the Non-Vote….
“You say you want a Revolution, well you know, We All Want to Change the World …” (Lennon/McCartney)
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"Your belief systems....
The author of the quote, "Your belief systems...." at the bottom of your comment is:
Thomas Campbell - a physicists, NASA consultant, long-term consciousness researcher and the author of My Big TOE trilogy. Tom began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe's laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running.
Don't stop there.
I've been dreaming of this campaign for nearly 2 years. Do whatever it takes to dissolve even your voter registration. Another baby step and invisible adherence contact you should liberate yourself from.
To seek to create a new form of Government; for the purpose of self-governing is called the the right of self-determination and it's about the only right you do have. But there is no unlimited sovereignty, you cannot abolish or otherwise destroy that which you did not create.
But coming out from under tyranny as did the framers or founders; however you want to think of them did for themselves. They didn't do it for the common man, they pledged to each other. Nation building is not about the common man it is about the uncommon man. That's why they used all those capitonyms in the preamble. We are not "We the People", nor are we Posterity thereof.
From the Oregon State Constitution: "Men, when they form a social compact are equal in right..." Therefore, when they DO NOT form a social compact are NOT EQUAL in right. Question: When did you sign on to or form a social compact? Never once! You just grew up on the plantation subject under someone else's rule as a 14th amendment citizen and GRANTED "civil rights" which can be taken away.
Democracy? Define your terms? Are you even using a definition that is applicable in the context intended? The word does have some esoteric underpinnings. Democracy can be defined as a 'rule of the people'. But how is that suppose to be interpreted? Small matter, nearly all are correct and apply, from a certain point of view. Is there a rule of the people in that they are in fact ruled? Sure. Is there a rule of the people in that they decide their own fate? Sure. Is not another definition of the word "of", without; i.e. to be free of something? Yes. So is there a rule 'without' the people? Sure? Why else do you think they use it so liberally?
Actually a democracy has always been a militarily run government. Citizens just happen to be operating the public side of a trust set up on the civilian side of a military out-post. That's why they call it the post office. That's where all the res-idents (identity of the dead thing) are registered.
Then to go and vote for the President? Who is to be the commander-in-chief of the military... Are you at peace or are you at war? Well, if you vote for the commander-in-chief of the military you must be at war. The mere instance of a vote for the commander-in-chief of a military sends the message out to the universe that you are at war and thus need to be lead into war or to be sacrificed like mutton.
Me personally, I feel no moral obligation to partake in any unethical act.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
It's easier than a lot of
It's easier than a lot of people might think, but is only difficult because of the years of conditioning to think that society cannot survive without it's institutions, that society can never be capable of working together, which of course is a lie.
How do you have a voice by
How do you have a voice by voting? This, I don't understand.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
I don't understand what you
I don't understand what you hope to accomplish by not voting. Sure, each individual is perfectly free to abstain from voting--and the majority of people already do not vote (both eligible voters and total population.) So what you propose is that nobody votes, and this will send a message to the "Big Government." What exactly is this message? You are no longer needed?
Do people really want to send this message to the government? Would people be happy to find out that they are no longer served by a police force and fire protection, no longer is the safety of their food and medicine regulated, and there are no more safety-net programs to alleviate poverty? Maybe the author of the post would agree with these sentiments, but surely the vast, vast majority of people would not. So who is "the people," is it you, or is it everyone?
Basically what you're suggesting is absurd and naive because no consensus exists as to what the role of government should be. Is everyone going to suddenly and miraculously agree that voting is unnecessary? The only reason that your idea of everyone not voting might accomplish something is because of the extraordinary amount of agreement that would have to happen for EVERYONE to not vote. But in reality there is nothing close to this amount of agreement on any sort of large scale.
Furthermore, who would be in control if nobody voted? The government would not simply vanish into thin air.
"We turn out in numbers to create “change”, yet we move the needle from one extreme to the other and it usually moderates right down the middle." This is quite an astute observation, because this is precisely how our system of government was designed to function.
"Maybe "We the People" have such rights to seek and create a new form of Government - a Global committee that abolishes “Nationalism” and separateness."
Okay, now here is an interesting idea. So when we, the people, are trying to make decisions within this new framework of global government.....
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...how will we decide what to do when people disagree?
......
Maybe we'll vote on it?
not voting in the election
does not mean the process of voting in all conditions is useless or meaningless
I generally agree, but Everythinging raises an important point..
Not voting is an important way to make a statement that the current system is no longer relevant. But conscious non-voters should be prioritizing their time to bring in a system that is better ...a system that does not move us backwards into sociological decay. Don't boycott the vote out of anger, but in confident knowledge that a new way is coming . . . because we're creating it.
I think the Evolver and Zeitgeist movements offer some very strong clues about what that better way looks like.
Peace...
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Manny Otto
www.MythosForCreatives.com
www.DivineArtsMedia.com
Let me just say that there
Let me just say that there should be a bigger clue in here than merely trying to send a message to government. You don't vote for the president of other countries. Why? Different jurisdiction. If you're a US citizen you don't have any right to vote in Canada.
Okay so lets say you immigrated to Canada and became a citizen of Canada. As a citizen of Canada can you vote in Canadian elections? Yes!
Okay so, if there was or you formed a new Nation State and moved out of the US corps jurisdiction and into this new Nation States jurisdiction, would you still be eligible to vote in the US? No!; Why would you? And really, why would you want to when the US is no longer your concern? Besides you now have other moral obligations to support your new state. One where you can be signatory to the compact and have political rights as an author of the law. Rather than a citizen subject under some other corporate rule where you have no rights!
It's not like your vote counts anyway, but if your alliances were not with US corp and were elsewhere. Wherever it is you went off to and made new alliances with would consider it treason to keep living as a US citizen and trying to vote in their system.
Since the popular vote doesn't decide the Presidency anyway, the popular vote acts as measurement tool for how hopelessly enslaved the populace is. Chances are if you're a voter, you think or thought at one time your vote counts, believe(d) this thing is legit, and otherwise convinced that you are one of "We the People". Then if you're a registered voter they know they own you. Whereas if you're not a registered voter that determination is still up in the air.
So where do your allegiances lay? The unrighteous king? Or the divine creator?
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
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politics
infinite regression of change and resistance
multi-rhythmed rhyme
singing into the winds of change
to move their vector more in line
with where we wish to arrive
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Those quietly moving and shaking behind the scenes are the plutocrats pushing an oligarchic agenda. They have the best that modern psychology can offer to pick off those below with lies and fantasies. People become so conditioned, they just move along in line. It is all very sad.
The only thing I can think of to keep from totally going under with the shipwreck to be in Washington, D.C. is to go local, as much as possible, making it more possible every day to spit in the eye of Congress because we're making our world just fine ourselves.
With the national elections skewed by the focus of oligarchic special interests, it is ever more important to make a stand on the local level, where real people meet and work out regulations and services "on the ground". Because the vast easily manipulable electorate is not paying attention to the real issues affecting their immediate lives, those who do can make a real difference where it most immediately counts.
I don't vote because I have
I don't vote because I have no interest in politics, governments, legislation, rules, laws, party systems, borders, countries, patriotism, etc. etc. For me it's just plain boring and irrelevant. There are many things in life that are much more important and interesting than concerning myself with such a mundane and perceivably pointless activity.
You Might Be On To Something
See my recent blog post for related material:
http://www.evolver.net/user/reganstraley/blog/salvaging_american_spirit_...
we are spirits in the material world
is this a variation on -what if they gave a war and no one came? the answer is the draft. or as dick gregory's says, the central question of the electoral process is not who votes but who counts the votes.
those who we allow to rule us will not be dissolved by our failure to cast our vote for our continuing servitude. the system of control that we are co creating each moment is more robust than you imagine. to hone your skills as an orator for truth and justice, think as if you were a beef steer petitioning burger king executives about your rights. what argument or evidence might you bring up to change their minds and grant you your freedom? btw the burger king execs don't speak cattle nor do they recognize it as a language. or closer to home, try talking to your family about the rights of turkeys as you sit down to your thanksgiving meal. as we oppress so we are oppressed.
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Don't vote, it only encourages them
It's like David Icke said "If you vote you have nothing to complain about." Voting only seems to encourage this highly inadequate system. Oh and i'm sick and fucking tired of the fraud that everyone elected (Obama.) If his motives were to genuinely produce change in this country and not suck the cocks of the corporate interests he would have legalized weed, ended both the inane conflicts in the middle east on his first day in office, do a serious investigation into 9/11, have George W. Bush publicly castrated, been openly gay, and sported some mean dreadlocks. How much longer until we wake up to the fact that once you've already gotten in office, you've already sucked so much corporate dick that any change you make will be the minimum required to maintain the illusion?
2 cents
the only people we could convince not to vote would be voting democrat initially because this is an entirely left wing idea written on a left wing website... and i dont think it would be a fun country to be run entirely by the right wing... policits as usuallllll
I wouldn't say that at
I wouldn't say that at all.
There are many right wing christian wannabes that feel the compunction to be as close to god as they fathom. When in the moment one puts their faith in mans idolatry they've strayed way off course if divinity is the destination.
There are numerous biblical references backing up this position as well.
"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man dwells the truth..."
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