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Abdicating responsibility doesn't mean things will get better. Just that someone else will make the decision for you.
by cl0ckt0wer 5y ago
Abdicating responsibility doesn't mean things will get better. Just that someone else will make the decision for you.
- crmrc114 5y agoIf both candidates fail to represent me, why should I reward either one with a vote? Sometimes both sides can be equally contestable. I know with all the get out to vote propaganda in the United States we're all told that we should participate. But if the system is inherently broken, I can act much more change personally on a local level with local elections and state elections. I think a lot of people are in the same boat as me and we write off the federal government as a circus where the highest funded candidate gets into office. (On that note, if we banned corporate donors, that would be a very interesting experiment)
- sneak 5y agoNot my circus, not my monkeys. It's not an abdication of responsibility, as I don't recognize the responsibility or the authority of mob rule in the first place. You're right that it means someone else will make the decision for me, and it will be enforced against me with violence. I'd rather not participate in it at all, because that gives the whole process the appearance of consent and legitimacy. I don't actually think democracy is a good way to run things, and I don't consent to the application of it to me, or the demand that I participate in it, or the insinuation that I have some responsibility to do so. I never signed up for this and don't want it. My participation is implied/tacit acceptance of the outcome even if it is different from my vote, and no such acceptance exists.