How do you RENOUNCE party affilliation, and UNregister to vote?
The political process in this nation is a sham, of which I no longer wish to be a part. At the very least, I am physically SICK to think that I am affiliated with the Republican party, and I want to UNaffiliate myself. I don't want to be associated with them, OR the Democrats. They are all working for the same goal, and it isn't freedom. So, is there any way have myself REMOVED from the voter rolls, and especially the party affiliation rosters?
Wanting to unregister to vote is not "retarded".
I emailed the following to the Virginia State Board of Elections:
"To whom it may concern,
I no longer want to be registered to vote in political elections. I wouldn't use such a system to determine anything as trivial as my breakfast cereal, and I morally have no business using it to legitimize people's commanding of governmental authority over me or anyone else. It isn't enough for me to simply not vote anymore. I believe my voter registration implies my consent to a process by which other people fraudulently claim to represent my interests by their actions which I deem criminal. My belief in the fraudulence of the political system makes me unrepresentable. So, please assist me in unregistering to vote.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this simple matter."
Their response told me to contact my local registrar and ask that my name be removed from the voter list.
I haven't contacted the registrar yet, but I'll post more here if there's any more to it than that.
"letting the big govt people have the only say in the matters"
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specsaregood
Thanks for signing up to tell us that. hopefully you are a liberal. I for one want as many small govt people as possible and anarchists to to register to vote. Its better than letting the big govt people have the only say in the matters.
Voting is a zero sum game. Libertarianism isn't. Capitalism isn't. Freedom isn't. By participating in the voting process, one lends consent (and thus, legitimacy) to it. I'm an anarchist and pro-capitalist, so I've realized as such that, if you think about it enough, I'm a bit of a hypocrite to vote.
Have you heard the saying "Democracy is 2 wolves and 1 sheep voting on what's for dinner"? Well, I don't want to be a sheep, but I don't want to be a wolf either. You won't rid the system of wolves by becoming wolves!
If your ideology wins governmental control, yours becomes the side using governmental authority to act against the wishes of some people who are forced to finance your actions!
If your ideology looses, your participation in the voting process lends your consent to the legitimacy of the powers of the winners. In effect, elections are a process by which the powers and resources of the democratic majority are subsidized by the consent of the various democratic minorities. "The consent of the governed"
It ultimately doesn't matter whether you win or lose, because no matter whom you vote for, the government gets elected!
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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Originally Posted by
TCE
By this logic, if there were 535 Ron Pauls + a Ron Paul President, we would still be electing the government ... but now that we are actually winning seats, I just don't understand why we shouldn't continue this route and perhaps in a few cycles we will have minorities in Congress.
If the dominant ideology of the public were such that it were possible to elect so many Ron Pauls, what would be accomplished by electing anyone at all?
I posted here as a reply to an old post from Wendi about how to unregister which I happened upon in a google search of that question. I like Ron Paul. I am a libertarian.
I've come to my conclusions rationally and morally. I'm not bossing you around, and I'm not electing anyone to do it for me. If I were, I'd reasonably be called hypocritical to criticize others for doing such things.
You don't need to fight to win. Stop participating. Renounce your faith in the system- vocally. It won't take a democratic majority to overburden the government with noncompliance. I don't even care what it takes. I'm just not complying when and wherever that is a cost-worthy option. I won't command anyone to follow me.
Maybe I can't stop someone from whipping me with a switch, but I won't fetch them the switch.