The elections in the US are coming soon. Like always, this will be ‘the most important election ever’! The freedom movement is divided: Should we vote for Trump since he made promises to both the Bitcoin and the Libertarian community, or should we stay away from politics and not vote? In this article I will explain whether freedom minded people should vote.
The seen and the unseen of voting
I am a very big fan of the book ‘Economics in One Lesson’ by Henry Hazlitt. I can’t recommend you enough to read this book. The seen and the unseen of government policy is the main theme of the book. It describes that the benefit of government policy is always clearly visible and obvious. It’s always ‘seen’ and thus celebrated by the public.
However, the cost is always greater. Those costs are not visible for the public and thus ‘unseen’ and often ignored. This is why counter productive policies keep happen over and over again. I believe this principle of ‘the seen and the unseen’ is true for voting too. The benefits are obvious and easy to recognise, but tiny. While the cost is only visible when you do a deep dive, but it’s huge.
What Can We Get from Voting? - The Seen - Political Changes
There are some arguments to vote, and there are arguments to not vote. To make a clear analyses we first have to establish what we will get from voting, and what the cost will be. What we get is pretty clear, it’s directly visible and people are discussing these issues daily. Here are a few:
- Ross might be released
- Bitcoin adoption might accelerate
- It might undermine the current clown world regime
- A CBDC might be banned
- Taxes might get slightly better
The word ‘might’ is very important here, since they are promises made by a politician. We all know that politicians are famous for lying. Especially in case of Trump. He had 4 years to fulfil his promises and he didn’t. However, there is an argument that he might do it this time: Bitcoin Magazine donated a lage sum of money to the Trump campagne. Politicians are prostitutes, so he might please his highest bidders.
What is the Costs of Voting? - The Unseen - Your Dignity
If you pay taxes your energy (money = energy) is used for coercive activities like murder (war), theft (tax enforcement), kidnapping (draft and arrest for victimless crimes) and more. However, if you don’t vote you are a victim of this coercive entity, so you are morally not complicit in its crimes. To explain this I like to use a comparison on the level of the individual:
If you get robbed for $100,- on your way home and you learn that the robber bought a gun with this money and killed someone. Are you now complicit in the murder? We will all agree that you’re not, because you didn’t want to hand your money to the robber. I would argue that paying taxes by itself doesn’t make you complicit in the crimes the government does for the same reason. However, in combination with voting it does. If you vote you agree to the rules of the game, which includes that you willingly hand over your money to buy the gun.
If You Let Me Smash 3 Eggs on Your Head, I’ll Give You 10 Dollar
In my younger years I was a member of the Scouting. We went camping often, it was alway a great experience. One day the Scout leader asked us who wanted to earn ten dollar by allowing him to smash 3 eggs on his head. The first to raise his hand was placed on a chair in the middle of the group.
The leader broke the first egg on his head. The slimy stuff ran over his face and his clean clothes. Everyone was laughing, it was very amusing. Then he did the second egg. While the poor kid was waiting for the 3rd egg the leader said that he was finished, and wouldn’t do the last egg.
Then the kid realised that he wouldn’t get the ten dollar because the deal was 3 eggs. He also realised that he couldn’t get angry about the two eggs being smashed on his head, because he implicitly allowed it when he agreed to play the game.
The kid duped himself by playing the game. The promise of ten dollars lured him into accepting the eggs being smashed on his head. Normally, nobody would accept this, because it’s a clear violation of his rights. The outlook of the reward of ten dollar made him accept the humiliation including the violation of his rights.
A voter is lured into playing the game by the outlook of the ‘seen’ advantages we described earlier. By playing the game he accepts the humiliation that's part of the game, which describes that the winner is allowed to take his money (tax) and spend it however he want for the coming 4 years. In other words, you are in with all the crimes being done in the following periode, whoever wins the election.
I would say that even the people who voted for Trump in the last election are complicit in Biden’s crimes, while non-voters are not. Trump voters played the stupid game and implicitly agreed to the rules which means that Biden could do whatever the F he wants in the coming 4 years because he won, while non-voters didn’t.
**The fact that you implicitly agree on the rules of the game if you play can be explained much easier. Imagine you get challenged to fight someone in the ring. Your opponent explains some insanely stupid rules before the game. Obviously you disagree on the rules, because they are very bad for you.
Everyone will agree that if you accept the fight (you play) you implicitly agree to these rules. You obviously can’t complain about them half-way the fight when you start losing. Once you accepted the fight you accepted the rules no matter how stupid they are. You shouldn’t play to begin with! *
The hidden or ‘unseen’ cost of voting is your dignity
Whether you are religious or not: You will be judged either at the doors of heaven by God or throughout your life and on your death bed by yourself. Knowing that you did the right thing and wasn’t part of the evil shit that happened in the world is the most important thing. Now imagine your judgement by yourself, by God or in a future trial:
If you say that you voted because you wanted those good things to happen, you sound as dumb as the kid who allowed the eggs to be broken on his head because he wanted to get the easy money. The non-voter is a very different story: He sounds like someone who get the eggs smashed on his head out of the blue without agreeing to play the game. What do you think the difference in judgement would be?
Let’s make up the balance
If you vote you might get some political changes that you want. However, the chance that your vote makes the difference is extremely small. Generally, there are about 160 million people who are going to vote. The chance that your vote will be decisive is tiny, comparable with the chance to win a lottery. Even if you win this lottery, it’s still possible that these changes won’t happen, simply because the politician in question was lying to get more votes.
This means that by voting you get a lottery ticket where the jackpot is that some political changes might happen. To buy this lottery ticket you sell your dignity and make yourself complicit in the most heinous crimes like theft, murder and incarceration on a massive scale. Is the benefit worth the cost? Obviously not!
*Imagine why voting is seen as …..
Make not voting your vote!
If you want to see change in the world, start with yourself and your own neighbourhood. Vote with your money, vote with your actions and vote with your feet, but never vote for politicians! You will expand where you focus on. As long as people keep voting, politicians will feel massively empowered and you feel disempowered, because you focus on others to solve your problems.
The only reason why murder, theft and incarnation by the state aren’t seen as a crime is that the majority of the population made themselves complicit by voting. This part of the population will always defend these crimes as ‘necessary policy’ because they won’t admit that they are responsible for the death and destruction caused by the state they voted for.
As soon as enough people realise that voting is a fools game designed to whitewash crimes by politicians, political power will decrease and the productive class will flourish. If we all do the right thing indirect slavery (statism) can be abolished like direct slavery was abolished in the 19th century. This is the real important vote! DON’T F*CKING VOTE!