I'm in prison for refusing to file tax returns, while government bureaucrats use your taxes for private planes, lavish parties and all other benefits of their power.
If you think this election, whatever its results, will change this system, you will be sadly disappointed.
@Xyrlyth@2B7C89526 True. I think the fact that politicians desperately advertise for people to vote is a sign that they need that legitimacy though. There would be a critical mass at which a low enough ratio of people not voting would delegitimise the process.
@Xyrlyth@2B7C89526 I think voting legitimises the power structure status quo. Not participating IS the revolt, because it is predicated on the rejection of institutional politics - a simple idea. Full blown revolutions start with ideas. No voting means no legitimacy for muh representative democracy
@Xyrlyth@2B7C89526 The libertarian party is an oxymoron anyway. You can't claim to believe in diminishing/reducing the size of the state while being another unit that adds to the size of the state. The only sound libertarian stance to take on voting is to not vote imo.
@BitcoinSampo Bitcoin's roots being in Austrian economic theory is overstated. It's more the appeal of Austrian political theory that Bitcoin is derived from. In terms of pure monetary theory it more closely resembles the monetarist ideas of Friedman i.e. monetary predictability/k percent rule
@ancapquotes the same premise applies for those who support the "libertarian" party. A political party cannot be "libertarian", as it contradicts the very nature of what is supposed to be achieved through libertarianism.