To Vote or Not to Vote

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I have a confession to make. It's sure to be a little controversial, even among groups of people with which I otherwise share a lot of common ground.

I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2020.

If you think that means I voted for Joe Biden, then you don't know me very well.

I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016 either.

If you think that means I voted for Hillary Clinton, then you don't know me at all.

I'm certainly a conservative and always have been. In many ways, I'm a traditionalist as well. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm a Republican—in fact, it specifically means that I’m not a Republican. For much of my early life, I would have claimed the Republican party, but for the last fifteen years or so I have considered myself unaffiliated with political parties.

I think the Republicans are a terrible party…only to be exceeded in grift, decadence, and political vacuity by the Democrats. Neither party can be accurately described as conservative or interested in promoting constitutional limitations.

I refrained from voting in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

Why?

It had nothing to do with Trump as a candidate per se. Those two were not the only presidential elections that I have abstained from. So why not vote? Simply stated, I don't want to play in a rigged game. As I said, my decision to not vote in either 2016 or 2020 had nothing to do directly with Trump. The election wasn’t a sham because Trump was participating in it. No, Trump was in the election because it was a sham. That’s why he was placed in the election by whomever has that power. Presidential elections do not represent the will of the people (or even state electors) and have not in a long time. It's the same as an older kid flipping a quarter with a younger child and stating: “Heads, I win. Tails, you lose.”

I have long suspected that voting, at least in the presidential elections, doesn't matter. I agree with the quip that presidents are selected, not elected. We are given candidates that have been thoroughly screened and vetted by whomever determines which candidates will be presented as viable. Massive propaganda via campaigns, media spotlighting, and other mechanisms ensure that the “right” candidates make it through the primaries and then that the “correct” one wins on election night.

If you had asked me who I preferred in the 2016 election, I would have said Trump without hesitation. But that doesn’t mean I was going to vote for him. I was not going to endorse him with my vote. If you had asked me the same question during the 2020 campaign season, I would have given the same answer but less enthusiastically (to me, Trump, though still preferential to Biden in every way, had showed his true colors in the covid op which made him even less appealing than he was in the previous election).

I never trusted Trump as a candidate. As far back as his 2016 campaign, I always partially assumed he was part of the election that year as a candidate because he was supposed to be there. In other words, a part of me believed that he was not the political outsider that we were supposed to believe he was. Clearly, someone wanted him running and then obviously that someone or someones wanted him to win. I found it laughable that he would seek to pander to Christians (Trump’s complete ignorance of the Bible demonstrated here), though many naively accepted him and touted him as some sort of warrior for truth. Over time, I have become much more convinced that Trump was, and remains, a carefully crafted demagogue offered as the dialectical opposition to the candidates presented as leftists. National level politics is often nothing more than a dialectical trap to keep uninformed people on one side battling against equally uninformed people on the other side.

To this day, I’m proud to say I never voted for him because I think he was largely a fake. It was as if he was only doing and saying what would capture the support of well-meaning but naive conservatives. I also think he was brought in to be the one to shepherd the covid op during his presidential tenure. I’m sure I will write more about Trump at another time.

While on the one hand I understand the completely rational and common-sense justification that leads many people to vote for “the lesser of two evils,” I think that explanation falls flat when we contemplate how candidates have been screened prior to their “admission” into the campaign and how there is already a pre-selected “winner.”

For example, I completely agree that the 2020 election was “stolen,” if by the term we mean that more people voted for Trump than Biden. I think most reasonable people now admit that (though plenty of unreasonable people still may not). People were right to immediately question the election results because of the suspicious nature of much of the voting and vote counting (the specifics of which lie outside the intent and purview of this post). The 2020 election is significant, but not for the reason many people think. It did not mark a clearly stolen outcome after many previous decades of free and fair elections. No, it demonstrated that the long-standing artificiality of the campaign and electoral processes was now blatant and explicit. In that regard, the 2020 presidential election was absolutely problematic — and I would never downplay the gravity of the corruption of our electoral processes — precisely because the “steal” was basically performed right in the face of every American.

Though bold, it should not be surprising. Ours is a government that has no respect for its citizens. Why would it surprise us that a government that launched an op to murder and otherwise tyrannize its own citizens through poisonous injections, lockdowns, etc. is also capable of directly showing its people that they aren’t allowed to choose their own leaders? It’s a type of gaslighting because reasonable people are faced with an either/or dilemma consisting of two options, both of which they feel they must reject, which then results in extreme psychological confusion at the individual and collective level. It can’t be possible that our elections are stolen because that can’t happen in America. However, it’s also impossible that Joe Biden, who is unfit to serve as president in every conceivable way, could have legitimately defeated Donald Trump. People are left massively confused, which is intentional.

How long have our elections been controlled? I don’t exactly know, though I personally think it has been a long time. Researcher John Coleman, to whom I have referred before, has shared the truth behind American elections. You can find him speaking about this here between about 26:00 and 32:00 (he speaks specifically about how the elections of Carter and Clinton were orchestrated by the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London) though the entire speech is definitely worth listening to.

My comments here have been focused on presidential elections. There are other elections, particularly those at the state and local levels, that are surely less corrupt. I am not necessarily against voting in the abstract, even with respect to presidential elections. Were we to live in a functional republic in which electoral sanctity was preserved, I would vote. Therefore, I am not necessarily saying I would never vote again. I am not condemning anyone who decides to vote. I am merely expressing my opinion, supported by evidence I deem credible, that I think voting in presidential elections doesn’t matter. I think it is a sham. I think it’s fraudulent. I think it has been like that for a very long time. I refuse to go along with a process that makes a mockery of freedom, the electoral process, and constitutional rights.

I absolutely disagree with the idea that we can vote our way out of the problems we are currently in. People who still believe that fail to adequately understand the magnitude of the problems we face in this country.

However, I concede that there are plenty of people who agree with the points I have made here but still believe that it is our duty to participate in the process. While I generally disagree that we must vote in clearly fraudulent elections out of some sense of moral and/or civic duty, I would never condemn that position as entirely invalid.

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