Lemon Thrower wrote:I think i have as much love for America as you do; i just don't delude myself into thinking it still exists.
fwiw, here are Doug Casey's thoughts on not voting. I'm not some sort of Casey disciple or something, but Doug usually manages to hit an idea from angles you haven't previously thought of.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey62.1.html
I have read Doug Casey in the past and the dialogue you linked in your post is Classic Casey. Imagine if the voting public could both read and comprehend the magnitude of the argument he's making. We'd have a near 100% turnover in Congress as well as many state and local governments. How refreshing to dream of something that liberating. Unfortunately, most people don't have the patience to read something longer than a few paragraphs if it differs from their worldview.
I agree with much of what Casey is saying in the link. One point that bothers me is trying to figure out how to "vote with my feet," as he says. How do I move my stuff to another country? Some of my valuables fell out of the canoe in an unfortunate boating accident. They are not easily recoverable. I can't leave them at the bottom of a bottomless lake and move to Argentina, for example, where Casey is trying to sell lots to freedom-loving ex-pats. Besides, Argentina has its own woes as do/will many other countries. Guess I will just have to stick it out in the US, for better or worse.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them... (Thomas Jefferson)
