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Originally Posted by Skybird
I thought like that myself, some time ago, but then decided against it. Becasue that way you help to push up the official number for voter participation, by that increaing the legitimiation of the system, no matter your "vote". And that is what it is about for the establishement: to keep the system alive, no matter what you vote for, as long as you just vote and legitimate the system itself by that. For a government it is more difficult to hide and argue agaisnt a low voter turnout. And if those 95% of non-voters, in August's example, would turn against any formed up government by not only not having voted, but punishing it with strict civil disobedience, the givenrment simply has nothing to govern.
Giving an invalid ballot is a form of tolerating the system, even when you are against it. It makes no saense, and compromises your own stand and argument. That why those living by the system want you to vote anyhow, at all cost, no matter what.
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Yeah, some time ago I thought exactly like you. But then I told myself that everybody can moan and whine and boycott. Not a lot of effort involved, either. So instead of going on with the easy way out, I joined a party and now try to involve myself, to make a little difference here and there. It may be not much, but it certainly is better then shaking fists all the time over a system that does not suffer from systematic structural failures, but too much cynicism and not enough idealism and people willing to lift a finger for it. The same kind of problem every system composed of humans has after a while no matter how well constructed it is.