It is not your civic duty to vote for evil
In the lead up to the 2016 presidential elections, you’ll surely hear the cry from the establishment: “It’s your civic duty to vote”. Some may use the word “responsibility” instead of “duty”. Whatever the word choice, the meaning is the same. You need to vote, they say. Pull the lever for somebody. Anybody. It doesn’t matter who, just pull it.
What if I told you that it’s NOT your job to simply pull the lever. It is not your job to assume the position of a robot, flock to the polls (or fill out an absentee ballot) and simply vote for the person with the correct letter next to their name (ie: an R or a D, typically). What if I told you that it’s this kind of voting that causes, and perpetuates, the very problems and issues that we Americans rail against every year?
In a race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, almost all of us — who vote for the establishment — will vote for the “lesser of two evils”. And how can we not? Neither Trump nor Hillary possesses presidential qualities — even accidentally. Trump exhibits mindless confidence without a shred of intellectual integrity, and Clinton’s corruption oozes from her like grease from a piece of meat.
What if neither candidate from the Big Two political parties are fit for the presidency?
Is it still our “civic duty” to vote for one of them? And if we do, is it our fault when our deficit continues to grow? Wars rage on overseas? Government expands? Corruption deepens?
Each new presidency seems to install a whole new level of ineptness in Washington, and the people refuse to take responsibility for their voting habits. The fact is WE continue to elect these people. We are the ones pulling the lever in direct support of evil, escalating hollow shells of human beings into the White House.
And why? Because it’s our civic duty? Nonsense.
You do not have a responsibility to vote for an evil representative to occupy the White House. That is your choice, but not your responsibility. If you choose the lesser of two evils, you have made the choice to support evil, and the results from that choice shall be placed directly at the feet of those who provide their support.
We are not innocent. We are not victims. We have every opportunity to demand REAL change in this country, to stop voting for dreadful political figures who we admit are deeply flawed, evil people. We don’t get a pass on our voting record just because we were told that it’s our “responsibility to vote”.
Voting for evil is not our responsibility, civic duty or civil right. Voting for evil is a choice, a choice that we make through our own free will.
Do not vote for evil. Our nation deserves better.
