Posted on 02/16/2004 6:56:38 AM PST by paulat
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:19:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I heard Michael Savage say on the radio recently people should not vote but not over the war issue. It was over the immigration issue (and something else too, can't remember). He said both parties are the same on the big issues - selling out the country, both were hopelessly corrupt and beholden to their corporate masters. "We the people" have no say or representation. The idea behind not voting was that it would show the sham of the two parties and representative democracy for what it was. If only 10% of the eligible voters participated the politicians couldn't claim pious high ground about how free and democratic we were as a nation. Or something to that effect.
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>Murray Rothbard once wrote that even the most brutal dictator ultimately bases his power on the opinions that are held by a majority of the population that is under his rule. After all, even dictators with large armies tend to be vastly outnumbered by the populations they rule over, and revolution is always on the dictator’s mind. That’s probably how he gained power himself in the first place – the previous dictator was, well, too dictatorial and created the conditions for his own overthrow..... Democratic regimes also base their legitimacy on their ability to claim that their rule is "the will of the people."
The aricle then lists why one of our policitcal parties is bad and how the other is worse. He follows with this:
> That’s why it is unpatriotic to vote. Being patriotic in America means being devoted to the Constitution, if not the natural rights philosophy that motivated much of it. Since neither of the major political parties has any interest whatsoever in enforcing the constitutional limitations on the state, they are all traitors to the Constitution (with one lone exception, Congressman Ron Paul). ...Anyone who supports them is also behaving in a traitorous manner. That is, anyone who votes for any of them. Voting only allows these traitors to the Constitution to proclaim that "the people have spoken" and "I am your president," or congressman, senator, governor, or whatever. Their legitimacy rests solely on their ability to make this claim...... if, in the next presidential election, a mere 10 percent of the electorate, instead of the usual 50 percent or so, voted. The unconstitutional regime in Washington would be de-legitimized.
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Polls do not show anything of the kind.
The war is a democrat issue, not ours.
I have some other descriptive words, but I cannot post them.
The New York Times always spells it "Nascar", even though it's an acronym.
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