This Video is a pile of tosh and here’s why.
Warning: politics incoming.
I don’t vote (especially in the US as I’m a brit), but I don’t vote for a very good reason. I don’t vote because if I voted it would be tantamount to agreeing to let whoever gets in have a degree of control over my life that no-one should have, apart from me.
I don’t vote because I will not give a politician permission to rule me,
I don’t vote because I don’t believe that anyone is competent to define which choices I am able to make regarding my life but me.
In this so called democracy (both here and over the pond in The States) the rulers (allegedly) only rule with the consent of the ruled. Well I withhold my consent. By not voting.
By voting you agree to give up your freedom to define your own life to someone who doesn’t know you, and probably never will.
By voting you give your tacit permission to those who are elected to do whatever the hell they like for five (four over there) whole years. Who knows what they could do in that time?
By voting you are perpetuating a system which has demonstrated time and again that it does not represent, and may never have represented, the wishes of the people.
By voting you become the enemy. By voting you become not a fellow citizen but an oppressor to be resisted at every opportunity. You would take away my freedom? Deny me the right to live as I choose? Why? What have I ever done to you? I’ve never even met you (well some of you I have, but this is rhetoric, I’m trying to make a point). Don’t worry though, I’m not going to firebomb your house or blow myself up on a train. Because I believe that you are entitled to exactly the same rights of self-determination and freedom that I am and would do nothing to compromise that principle. Unless you were about to physically assault me, my family or my property, then I might have to break your thumbs.
So these celebrities have no right to ask me or anyone else to vote (no matter the country holding the election). They have their lives, their freedom. It is in their interests to perpetuate a system where the rich can buy their freedom and it is not the birthright of every person on the planet. They don’t care about you, your everyday lives, or any of the issues they mention in that video. They don’t care because they don’t have to, they’re rich enough to buy themselves a nice little bubble which insulates them from the big bad world.
If the US had socialized medical care, do you think any of these people would use it? If global warming/climate change/whatever-the-PR-boys-have-said-its-to-be-called-now, really does make the seas rise it just gives them more water to float their boats in, and their hilltop house gets a sea view. They don’t care about the war, they aren’t the ones fighting it.
So here’s my advice to all of you who want to live the American Dream of “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Don’t Vote. And convince others not to vote too, its the only way to guarantee you get any of them.
Thank you for reading, keep the comments civil please 
(Hat tip to Broken Toys.)
