This is how an election works. I know people who are voting forTrump and I'm voting for Clinton. But those Trump voters are not voting for Trump because they are trying to negate my vote, they are voting for Trump because they took a bad fall and now they believe he'll make a better president than she will. If I downvote your steemit post, and my downvote was made because I think the post is a piece of shit, and then someone else upvotes your post because they think its great, the two of us both exersized our right to vote.
Also in this democrassy people talk politics all the time. People exchange opinions and get into arguments about who would be better. I can't count the number of conversations I've had about this election and the last one. I have no way to know if those conversations changed the minds of others, or which conversations made me change my mind on specific policies, influencing how I vote for state and national officials.
There are not enough anarchists voting for the purposes of nullification to make this an election issue.
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I'm sorry. You've confused my dig at Dan & Ned for an actual comment. ;)
@tuck-fheman I fiend for national politics, the politics of steemit are not yet of interest to me.
Are you trying to say democrazy? ;) Anarchists likely wouldn't vote for Clinton or Trump IF they voted. They'd likely vote for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein depending upon which leaning (Capitalists or Communist) they have within the Anarchists ideologies. Though they are still individuals so they may rightly write in whomever they choose. "Bum on the street corner get's my vote!"
EDIT: Or vote for Vermin Supreme (check him out on youtube if you don't know of him... real guy... really funny) He'll give you a FREE pony.
anarchists do not acknowledge the legitimacy of government, and do not therefore vote at all.
voting is statism. like taking mass is religion.
Yep. But me ignoring the guy punching me is not going to stop him from punching me.
They also believe in the Non-Aggression Principle, which does not mean they do not believe in self defense.
I do not agree with the system, and I do not actually see VOTING as going to solve anything at this point. Yet not everyone sees things this way. What is going on around me does not change simply because my belief system does not agree with them. I don't expect prayer to solve anything, and I don't expect me not voting to solve anything either, though in most cases (except small local) my vote likely would have zero impact anyway.
I don't plan to die, or let my family die if I can avoid it. Choose battles, and all that jazz.
I do discuss with people and they are not likely to give up everything they believe, nor am I. Yet learning new things one step at a time is possible.
exactly @talyvale voting is statism a mass hallucination of something not there :)
Oh @talyvale... I forgot by the time you responded... see the line where I said Anarchists wouldn't vote for Clinton or Trump IF they voted. The IF was intentionally capitalized because I know technically an Anarchist doesn't vote. I should have put more emphasis on that. By the time you replied I'd responded to so many other things I forgot I did that. :)