Thirteen Reasons to stay home on election day

1. Voting is the ultimate manifestation of the false choices the State presents us with every day. Vote for a Republican, because even though he sucks too, at least he's only 99 percent evil instead of that Democrat who's 100 percent! yada, yada, yada. What if I'm not OK with any evil?

2. The government wants you to vote. The politicians who want to run the government (eg. the lives of you and everyone else) want you to vote. Why? Because it benefits them. If they weren't going to gain anything from political office they wouldn't spend money trying to get elected. And in the "business of government", where do the perks come? You guessed it, your pocket.

3. Continuing reason number 2, the only money the government has, they stole from someone else through taxation or inflation. The MOST that voting amounts to is a redirection of stolen goods- a lot like a Mafia boss deciding what to do with the money he extorted from people.

4. The only chance you have of your vote ultimately making a difference is if the election is decided by 1 vote; and even still, the entire system is corrupt and immoral so it still woudn't really be justified.

5. The system is corrupt and immoral because government represents nothing more than institutionalized violence. Voting allows you to point the guns of the State at someone else, nothing more. Voting for candidates who support government action means that you sanction the government action. If you elect a politician that supports the income tax, you are partially responsible for the crimes against humanity he or she commit once elected.

6. Taxation is theft; taxes on personal income amount to nothing more than the government asserting control over the finances of individuals. Therefore, if you vote for a politician that supports institutionalized theft, you are responsible for the theft they commit.

7. When you cast your ballot in favor of the government and its electoral process, you lose the right to complain about the things that the government does. Therefore, i would much rather keep my right to object to the immoral and illegal things that the State does on a daily basis. If you vote, you can't complain about the things the people you voted for do.

8. Electronic voting is a fraud. Story after story can be found in the news about fraudulent voting machines that change votes; and the entire system is provided by one company (Diebold)- the results can be hacked into at will by the powers that be in D.C.

9. There are better ways to spend your time other than in politics. Activities that are more rewarding and less harmful than voting include: reading a book, writing, playing music, exercising, sleeping, eating, and pretty much every other non-violent activity.

10. Politics is a soulless, goalless philosophy that is based on a lie- and the lie is that as long as we can choose our slaveowners every 2 and 4 years, we can have freedom. Bull. It is impossible to have individual freedom and simultaneously put your life in the hands of corrupt sleazebag politicians from the Republican and Democratic parties.

11. Since there is no moral, economic, or ethical justification for monopolized government; and since free market libertarianism is the only system capable of ensuring the freedom and equality of the world (at least under fallen, depraved mankind), casting a ballot in favor of a flawed, immoral system is casting a vote of despair. Voting is acknowledgement that there is nothing better than the corrupt fascism that has become the political landscape of this country.

12. Jesus said "do not steal", "do not murder", and to "love your neighbor as yourself". Since stealing from your neighbor to fund government programs, funding abortions and illegal wars overseas, and imprisoning millions for nonviolent crimes is the precise opposite of Jesus's commands, it is wiser to exempt yourself from the civic religion than to sin by supporting it.

13. See the Bible passage below:

1 Samuel 8:6-18 But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."
10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day."

So if you value freedom, individualism, the American dream, and the ethics of Christ, stay home.