Why I will NOT be voting
The occasion of MLL comrade Wally Conger’s publication of an Anti-Electoral Manifesto, his turning it into a sorely needed MLL anti-electoral handbill and the posting of related followup responses seems like a good time for me to weigh in on this matter.
Generally, I agree with Stefan Molyneux that moral appeals are more important for radical libertarians than appeals to utility. On the matter of why I have renounced voting, though, I have a very simple point that I have fixed upon and it could simultaneously be considered both a moral and a practical point.
I am an anarchist revolutionary. My goal is the abolition of the State. No matter how gradual or non-violent my methods may be, I can not deny my fundamental nature as a revolutionary. It is my duty to my own values, to my own integrity and to my own “soul” if you will, that I resist the seductive allure of attempting to ameliorate the evil of the state by participating in its evil myself — for to do so is to ultimately strengthen it, my enemy. Instead, I must stand outside it to the best of my ability in order that I myself do not lose my own sense of perspective, grow to comfortable with oppression and ultimately abandon long term efforts to destroy this monster.
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[...] Brad Spangler, Why I will NOT be voting: I am an anarchist revolutionary. My goal is the abolition of the State. No matter how gradual or non-violent my methods may be, I can not deny my fundamental nature as a revolutionary. It is my duty to my own values, to my own integrity and to my own “soul†if you will, that I resist the seductive allure of attempting to ameliorate the evil of the state by participating in its evil myself  for to do so is to ultimately strengthen it, my enemy. Instead, I must stand outside it to the best of my ability in order that I myself do not lose my own sense of perspective, grow too comfortable with oppression and ultimately abandon long term efforts to destroy this monster. [...]
So…
You could still vote and it wouldn’t matter anyway. :o
Just like I voted on the measures, and for some Libertarians (yeah the “American” Libertarian types). But it all amounts to apathy on my part and I got a mail in ballot… so I figured wtf I’ll fill it out and send it in.
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