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Voting is Not an Act of Political Freedom

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork, being shared by an acquaintance from here, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Voting is not act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you'." - Wendy McElroy

“Voting is not act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician’s ear: ‘You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you’.” – Wendy McElroy

My Commentary: Discover the single-most important factor that ended the Apartheid State in South Africa…

Why You Got to Stop Voting:
http://fubarandgrill.org/node/1172

Refusal to Vote is the Simplest, Most Effective Means of Peacefully Delegitimizing a Corrupt, Overreaching, Tyrannical Democratic Government

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Government Does Not Exist,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"The only way voting will work is if we all refuse to do it!"

“The only way voting will work is if we all refuse to do it!”

My Commentary: South Africans didn’t end Apartheid by voting their oppressors out of office: they withdrew their consent to be ruled over by REFUSING TO VOTE!

Historically, refusal to vote is the SIMPLEST and MOST EFFECTIVE means of peacefully delegitimizing a corrupt, overreaching, tyrannical democratic government.