A_Wanderer
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In a free country can it a principled position to not vote?
For instance if given a choice between an economic and social conservative and an economic social conservative who is nominally a little more for the working class?
Do you feel that it is irresponsible and lame, principled and righteous or something else altogether to throw away your stake in democracy because you cannot agree with what is offered?
I should state that any contempt I have towards autocracy via democracy is not from a "they should do things the way I want to" mentality, rather it's born from the more selfish "I should be allowed to do things the way I want to" mentality. I'm simply fed up with the government of the day leaping upon whatever crisis of the week to steal from the public (be it excess booze and junk food tax) or resorting to base bigotry, there is never any debate about the role of the state and the populace, that may be a systematic problem, given that most people (by which I mean a democratic majority) seem to support the infringements on liberty that they assume can never effect them.
For instance if given a choice between an economic and social conservative and an economic social conservative who is nominally a little more for the working class?
Do you feel that it is irresponsible and lame, principled and righteous or something else altogether to throw away your stake in democracy because you cannot agree with what is offered?
I should state that any contempt I have towards autocracy via democracy is not from a "they should do things the way I want to" mentality, rather it's born from the more selfish "I should be allowed to do things the way I want to" mentality. I'm simply fed up with the government of the day leaping upon whatever crisis of the week to steal from the public (be it excess booze and junk food tax) or resorting to base bigotry, there is never any debate about the role of the state and the populace, that may be a systematic problem, given that most people (by which I mean a democratic majority) seem to support the infringements on liberty that they assume can never effect them.