Remember NOT to vote

By John Damellos

There is only one way to defeat the false dilemma Clinton-Trump in the upcoming elections: remember NOT to vote and learn to speak for yourselves, because the times are changing and so does the future of social compromise.

Millions of Americans are terrified of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. 

Hilary is a lady hawk, an agent of globalization morally and actively responsible for so many of the catastrophes that ruined large parts of the world. She armed al Qaeda to fight in Libya and Syria. She is not the benevolent mother that mainstream media would like you to believe, but an agent of Entropy. She’s a double-talker and a liar to her constituency and a conspirator inside her own party. 

And Trump is not a boy scout in the least; when it comes to building walls, to bolstering the security state, to propagandizing police brutality, to popularizing gender bias, to threatening individual rights and to bullying friends and foes around the world, he has no match in the Republican Party. 

It’s the system, stupid

The only reason why these two devils find themselves outside our doorstep today is because we invited them ourselves, by empowering with our votes the system that created them. If we say no to the system, if the large majority of Americans boycott these elections, the culprits will fall back in their rabbit holes. 

As a fellow journalist observed: “on election day, if fewer people lined up dutifully to choose between aspiring elective emperors and more people assembled defiantly to decry the empire itself, peace would have much better prospects.” 1

I say the fewer, the better. American democracy is dead, anyway. Elections 2016 might as well be its tombstone. 

A reminder: 

Democracy was a participatory system born in a small Hellenic city state 2500 years ago. It had a short lifespan and so long as it stayed within the limits of that city, it worked for the benefit of its people.

Shortly after, it was forced on others without their consent, same as imperialism and fascism. 

American democracy is an outdated historical construct of the 18th century. Romantic? Yes, but deceiving too, because in the US, while the citizens may change their representatives through elections, people do not directly vote. Electors vote on their behalf in the Electoral College. This means that less than 1000 people could decide the next president. And even if no candidate gets a majority of Electoral College votes, the election is thrown to the US House of Reps, and the top 3 contenders face off with each state casting one vote (2). Whoever wins the majority of states, wins the election. Thus, not 1000 but less than 60 votes could decide who would be the next president. 

This is not a democracy. It’s a joke. 

But if the dice is fixed, what is the point of boycotting these elections anyway?

To begin with, if Americans remember NOT to vote, it will be an unprecedented vote of no confidence to the system and the whole world will notice. Soon, others will follow.  

And the message will be simple: change your ways; which is a good way to start, because the system will be forced to retreat. 

As a result, there will be a vacuum of power, a new testing ground for ideas, and perhaps a new epoch of enlightenment for the benefit of each and every one of us.   

Sure, there will be strife and dangers. And some of you may fear that the keepers may unleash their military power against you to protect their precious system.

Remember, you also are armed and dangerous, and they know it. 

So, all you have to do is: Remember NOT to vote.  

1. http://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2016/04/15/empire-held-election-nobody-came/

2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/what-is-the-electoral-college_n_2078970.html