Writes Thomas Knapp: That’s my tentative estimate (based on Google election result and population statistics) of the percentage of Americans who voted for nobody for President of the United States on Tuesday. US President Barack Obama knocked down about 60.7 million votes.GOP challenger Mitt Romney polled about 57.8 million.Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, 1.14 million.Green candidate…
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Re: Silver Linings
Writes Skyler J. Collins: As much as I oppose electoral politics, there can be and usually are silver linings on the referendum front. Here’s a list of State nullification victories.
Re: Our Lord, the State
Writes Lou: The ministers and congregants have gone forth to bear witness and spread the gospel of the State. They have reminded us that it is our duty to worship and serve our Lord, the State. It is our duty to partake the sacrament of voting, early and often. They told us of the martyrs…
Re: Charades for Progress
Writes Colman McCarthy: Elections are charades for progress, marginal to the direct democracy of citizens getting involved personally and enduringly to create the conditions in which a just and peace-directed world can be created. Votes aren’t needed to tutor at a literacy center, or mentor a student, ease a neighbor’s pain or toil at any…
Re: They Win, We Lose
Writes Free Your Kids: No matter who wins, the people will lose. Our natural-born rights will continue to be denied, the Fed will continue to inflate the currency, taxation will continue to crush us, the police state will continue growing, and the slaughter of men, women, and children abroad will continue. The politicians win. The…
Re: No Right to Complain?
Writes David Kramer: If you’re a voluntaryist, like I am, I’m sure that you’ve had some person at one time or another say to you, “If you don’t vote, then you have no right to complain.” But that person’s logic is backwards. If I don’t accept something to begin with (in this case, the institution…
Re: If Your Vote Actually Counted
Writes Kyle Bennett: If you’re voting for freedom, you’re a permanent minority, by design. It’s not just that you’re one of only three or four percent for now, until you can grow that number through some kind of heroic effort, it’s that the system is designed to make sure no candidate you would choose is…
Re: Our Moral High Ground
Writes Skyler J. Collins: In response to my claims on the immorality of voting (of granting immoral power to someone however they intend to use it), some have said that voting is a violation of a lower law in obedience to a higher one. Well and good, my point remains, voting is immoral, irrelevant is…
Re: Unnecessity of School
Writes Nicholas Negroponte on Ethiopian kids: We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days,…