Next Tuesday, Nov. the 4th., don't vote, says Lew Rockwell...

The critical problem we face today is the same one all mankind has faced: the state, those monopolists who claim the right to break the laws that they make and enforce. How to restrain them is the critical problem of all sound political thinking. Making matters worse, this gang now has a monopoly on the money and the ability to print it, and they are abusing that power at our expense.

How does voting change the situation? Neither of the candidates for president wants to do anything about the problem. On the contrary, they want to make it worse. This is for a reason. The state owns the “democratic process” as surely as it owns the Departments of Labor and Defense and uses it in ways that benefit the state and no one else.

On the other hand, we do have the freedom not to vote. No one has yet drafted us into the voting booth. I suggest that we exercise this right not to participate. It is one of the few rights we have left. Nonparticipation sends a message that we no longer believe in the racket they have cooked up for us, and we want no part of it. More...

See also:

1. Elections USA: What's the big deal, anyway?
2. Obama and McCain: two names for more of the same...
3. It doesn't matter who gets elected, says Lew Rockwell...
4. I Don't Vote, says George Carlin...
5. Why is the election always on a Tuesday?