It really is depressing to see anarchists saying stuff like this. They know its not true but their sinissism gets the best of them. Even if you think voting is useless to follow that up with a claim that those who vote are an accomplice to staitism is absolutely ridiculous.
The sheer ignorance to the actual plight people are placed under by statism that that type of statement portrays is hard for me to comprehend. Its nothing but callousness.
Voting is useless and if you vote you are complicit in statism.
I advise you to read Samuel Edward Konkin III and I also advise you to study the end of the Soviet era.
It is depressing that there are still people who think that voting is useful.
As someone said:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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Perhaps you should read Lysander Spooner or even Rothbard. Neither of whom considered voting to be complicit in statism. Voting can't even considered to be purely voluntary.
But the strategy of calling people trying to improve their situation in any way they can think of as complicit in the system that has placed them in such a situation is nothing but off putting and callous. And wrong, on top of that.
You can debate about whether its useless or not. I find the blanket statement that its useless is hard to defend given you can't account for every situation. Voting may be useless in some or even most situations. But not all. And if you don't live in the US you haven't seen the cultural shift that vote has caused. Its not all great but its more positive than I've ever witnessed in terms of the prospects for liberty. Republicans are actually talking about ending the income tax now. That would be unheard of just 2 years ago.
But the berating people for voting for the obvious better choice in an election that could have gone either way on a platform mostly of libertarians and anarchists is crazy to me. Do you not think an anarchist or libertarian that voted for trump didn't realize he would do stupid shit?
