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RE: The Truth About Voting : Voting is Violence, Even if Unintentionally So (a logical explanation)
The original meaning of the word "idiot" was someone who didn't or couldn't vote
Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs ("person lacking professional skill", "a private citizen", "individual"), from ἴδιος, idios ("private", "one's own").[1] In ancient Greece, people who were not capable of engaging in the public sphere were considered "idiotes", in contrast to the public citizen, or "polites"[2].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot#Etymology
Voting is not a choice between good and evil, at best it is a choice of the lesser of two evils. Not voting is allowing others to decide without your input.
In the case of national elections? An individual’s vote literally doesn’t matter. Even if it did, mob rule governance (democracy) would still be immoral.
LOL of course, that's why in the case of national elections I generally vote third party, I live in such a partisan state that those partisans will always win by a landslide no matter who I vote for. The last presidential election did come down to a few thousand votes in key areas which is pretty close given the number of people. I totally oppose democracy in most cases, we have seen the sometimes absurd results of ballot questions, I like that America is a constitutional republic, could you imagine the clusterfuck had Hillary been elected in terms of civil rights?
Well, all I know is the vote numbers don’t matter as the electoral college can override them, and as the DNC proved in the last election, and the RNC proved in 2012 in sabotaging Ron Paul, the game is definitely rigged. A Hillary presidency would have been horrific, though, for sure.
Rigged beyond belief, the fact that the two parties control who is allowed in the debates is absurd.