It’s not what we get but what we give when we vote. We give the regime the simulacrum of legitimacy. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
Voting – when you get right down to it – is a form of compliance. You are going along with it – as opposed to opposing it. “It” being the system that is used to interfere with your natural right to be left alone (so long as you leave others, who have the same right to be left alone) and that enslaves you by asserting its unnatural right to compel you to hand over money that by right belongs only to you (because no one else has a rightful claim to it).
Compliance is – ultimately – compliance.
Whether one complies a little or less but still complies means one is compliant. When we vote for government, we get governed. I understand the “hold the line” point of view espoused by some well-meaning people, who urge that people vote for less government – because it was my own point of view for a long time. I also understand that we’re apt to get more government when it is only those who want more government vote. But at least this getting-more-government would no longer be incremental. At least it would no longer be possible to pretend – as many do – that we will somehow vote our way out of this.
We have been voting our way into limitless government for a very long time. Longer than any of us now living have been alive. Is the steady progression toward more rather than less government not self-evident? All that can be achieved by voting again is the possibility of feeling better, briefly – until the reality sets in. Again.
