nice bumper sticker slogan but you are wrong, voting is important if you don't vote you should move out of the USA then
so..
because I disagree totally with the entire perversion of the system, I should participate and lend it legitimacy? Because I was born here, I should automatically bend the knee to rulers who make King George look like a saint?
I think not. If you vote, you can't bitch. And I will continue to bitch, subvert, debunk, satirize, and hold in contempt all of those so-called "public servants". I used to be very heavily involved in "policital reform". In that time, I met about half of the Democratic leadership and all of the republican leadership. Regardless of their public face, one thing is true of all of them.
They want power like a drowning man wants air. They do not give a shit about anything else. The only check they have is that they KNOW if they push too far, too fast, there WILL be a new revolution. So they push incrementally and tell you to vote for 'em.
Meanwhile, at age 47, I live in a country that is far more like Weimar Germany than the USofA that I grew up in. The egregious abuse of power and the obsequious cop/soldier worship that passes for the public opinion these days sickens me. It is not in any way something I can recognize as American. I didn't sign up for this, and I sure as hell will not support the descent into naked tyranny that I have observed for the past 47 years. No chance at all. One doesn't become an anarchist at my age out of fashion or some passing fancy.
The root of America's troubles with other nations is that we have lost our way. We were the shining beacon of mercantile trade and NEUTRALITY. Switzerland now holds the beacon of neutrality, and are prosperous. Our "wise men" have led us into one foreign entanglement and boondoggle after another, making enemies we have no need of and friends we have even less need of for decades, and we are reaping what those votes have sown. Do you REALLY think those countries shouting "death to USA" would be singing that tune if our "leaders" hadn't been fucking with them for 69 years? Hell no. They spent centuries slaughtering each other, and would likely have merrily continued on that path if not for the bullshit spewing forth from the 10 square mile foreign nation that rules us.
Our domestic enemies are far more insidious than all of the foreign ones combined. They know exactly what they are doing to us, and they don't care. They view us as easily disposed of property, and every vote you cast affirms that belief.