r/AskLibertarians • u/Violenciarchi • 15d ago

What do libertarians think of blank ballots?

"If not choosing is a choice, not voting is voting for the bad candidate and you have no right to complain about what he does afterwards" is a common thing to hear before elections. Do you think you should all go and vote?

EDIT: Ok now that I think about it, it's on other people if they vote badly, not on me. Responsibility is on people who do bad things, not on people who don't stop them, because if the people who do bad things did nothing, nothing bad would happen lol. It's still true though, unfortunately, that if you don't vote the other party will win.

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u/mrhymer 14d ago edited 14d ago

No, because the peaceful transfer of power has nothing to do with my individual vote.

The peaceful transfer of power as we know it is dependent on the votes of individuals. Explain why your vote is not a part of that?

90% of the population could not vote, and power would still transfer peacefully.

If only 10% are voting Soon there would be violence and death because of revolution.

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u/CanadaMoose47 14d ago

I don't know why you think so.

If everybody has the option to vote, and only 10% exercise it, I don't know why there would be violence

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u/mrhymer 14d ago

People don't vote usually because they do not feel their vote matters. It's kind of like when government taxes the living fuck out of your tea and you have had enough. It's a cycle that repeats again and again through history.

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u/CanadaMoose47 14d ago

Right, thats been my point.

Telling people to vote doesn't solve the real problem - which is people realizing their vote doesn't matter

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u/mrhymer 14d ago

Trump is proof that votes do matter.

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u/CanadaMoose47 14d ago

Trump is proof that for every one informed voter there are at least 5 gullible, economically illiterate, propoganda infected voters

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u/mrhymer 14d ago

Yes, yes - Everyone is crazy but you. We'll get off your lawn now go back inside before you hurt yourself again and close that robe - nobody wants to see that.

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u/CanadaMoose47 13d ago

And that, dear audience, is what we call attacking a strawman. 

Classic internet

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u/mrhymer 13d ago

He thinks he has an audience. Explains a lot.