If You DO Vote, You DON'T Deserve To Complain.

Written by Lawrence Laryea

I have often heard from both my peers and my seniors that at the arrival of every electoral event, I should seize the opportunity to vote. Or else, "If you don't vote, don't complain," they say. This line has been subject to brazen repetition that it has helped to distort the true meaning of democracy. By now if you have not realized that your vote does not matter, I don't know what to tell you. The corny, tired, and weak old slogan of "If you don't vote, don't complain" begins to reveal a deeper issue and if I may add, an abysmal reality. First allow me to put all of this into perspective by identifying the two-headed dragon, also known as the two party dictatorship, also known as the Republicans and the Democrats. The two major crime families of United States politics who have their Headquarters in the halls of Wall Street and the City of London. Let's take a look at exactly who we are voting for, and I will give my take on what ought to be truly done.

Meet the Republicans...The reincarnation of Nazism...yet still the Lesser Evil.
If there was ever a political party that bore a striking resemblance to the right-wing regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945, it would be the United States Republican Party. Now this comparison to some may seem harsh or extreme, even hateful. But the fact of the matter is that it's true. The Republicans are brazen Social Darwinists who adulate the likes of Industrialists, hailing them as Captains of Industry instead of the Robber Barons that most of them are or have become. They care little for the poor and as a matter of fact, have led themselves to believe that the poor are in plight due to their own shortcomings. They see a sizable portion of the population (e.g the unemployed, disabled) as "loafers," "freeloaders," "parasites," and so forth who forage on government resources; resources that otherwise could be "expended elsewhere." Remember that the Nazis held similar views regarding the downtrodden of their society.

Hitler didn't just go after Jews, dissidents, and Communists. He also went after Trade Unions. The Republicans are notoriously known for their blatant and unreasonable opposition to organized labor. Thanks partly to their persistence being of the historical contributing factors, participation in organized labor unions has declined sorrowfully especially since the arch-reactionary Republican Ronald Reagan, a student of  Margaret Thatcher, signaled to employers nationwide that Washington was on their side, when he busted the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Organization (PATCO), an organization that actually supported his campaign. Union membership has been at a 70-year low according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cited by the New York Times.

The Republicans also insist on an economic "concentration camp". In addition to busting organized labor, they believe in abolishing the standard minimum wage, child labor laws, workplace safety and other regulations that they disingenuously claim are "crushing" businesses. The world they will realize if their crazed and crackpot policies take true effect is an environment (much similar to a concentration camp) where the individual will work and work and be worked to death, deprived of their economic freedoms and benefits, reminiscent of Oliver Twist in the Parochial Workhouse. And if this isn't bad enough, they wish to balance the federal budget deficit on the backs of the most vulnerable of our society. In other words, "Austerity"---The systematic, barbaric slashing of social services. People will obviously die. At a critical time when social services may be in dire need, now is the time the Republican Party has an even greater urge to cut them. Their idea of relief for the suffering is in fact, no relief at all. All this while expanding the war and military budget; an obvious trait of militarism. Just as the Nazis were militants, the Republicans are notorious for avidly beating the drums of war and also for their crazed bully pulpit against weaker and defenseless nations. All the while they have led people, in particular reactionary disgruntled members of the white middle and lower class who are fed up with the malaise of government, to adopt their policies as in their best interest when this couldn't be further from the truth. As Hitler once said, "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell, and the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." It is obvious there is a hidden hand at play here. The only difference between the Republicans and the Nazis, is that one had a profound and irrational hatred toward Jews, and the other has a profound and irrational affection towards the same group of people, in respect to the Zionist Regime in Israel.
So this is Option 1

Meet the Democrats....Simply the Greater Evil.
 Democrats are vastly similar to Republicans. But however they are unique. They maneuver differently and more cunningly. As Republicans are openly genocidal, and simplistic in their intentions, Democrats are still yet a greater evil. While the Republicans mobilize predominantly white, disgruntled and narrow scope of middle class to lower class citizens for the interests of Wall Street, Democrats are effectively able to mobilize a various array of factions (gays and lesbians, unions, and so forth)  for the very same interests, thus representing Anti-theses of the Hegelian Dialectic and neutralizing the vast amount of the population, subjugating them under a controlled opposition. Since the Democrats have been historically accredited with the development of the remnants of the popular government programs we have today, naturally they are perceived and expected to be its preservers. By being portrayed as lesser evil, they are subsequently the more desirable one. Because of the diversity within their party and in turn the influence over various factions, they are able to hijack/co-opt and pacify any true political movement that poses as a threat to the moneyed interests of our society. And thus, this renders them the greater evil. They have the same track record of wars, cater-to-the-rich policies, and other abuses just as much as the Republicans, yet they are able to keep the least amount of opposition through their rhetoric and the stark reality of their alleged opponent. If the greatest trick of all was the devil making people believe he doesn't exist, then the second one would have to be the Democrats making the common man think he had their best interest in mind. This is Option 2

Who in their right mind would take either of these options? It's clear that voting for either one is asking for trouble. As a matter of fact, if you do vote for them, you are agreeing that you know what you are getting yourself into; and ignorance is no excuse. So those who vote are actually the ones who shouldn't complain. Those who DON'T vote are sending a clear message, and in a sense they are voting by not voting. That they will not be a part of this mary-go-round political clown show that the Elites have produced for them every two to four years. Both parties have similar financial backing. Both are for war. Both are for big oil. Both are for globalization--the wrecker of national economies. Both are for the indefinite detention of Americans and Foreigners. Both are union busters. Both are for taxes that redistribute wealth from the bottom to the top. Both are for spying on Americans. Both are one in the same. It doesn't matter who you vote for. The Agenda stays in tact. By not voting, I am refusing their policies, their services. I am rejecting their morally bankrupt dispositions. And so if the consequences of these destructive and reckless pursuits that they are associated with befall upon me or my fellow man, I am actually the one with the rationale to complain.

One may often hear someone saying they will "vote" for Candidate X because he/she is the "lesser of two evils." Whether Lesser or Greater, evil is evil. And it takes a significant declivity in dignity and self-respect to make the implication that you are willing to vote for a "lesser" of two evils. As the reputed Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente once made a point: would you have dinner with the lesser of two evils? And so I would also ask: would you do business with the lesser of two evils, or let them babysit your children, or let them date your daughter? So why in the world would you vote for them to run your country? Things won't change for the better until the people themselves truly change.

What do we do?
It's simple. Don't vote, you can start with that. Get out of your passive political consumerism of waiting for pre-packaged insta-politicians manufactured by the Financier Oligarchs, partly at your behest. They are both part of a controlled opposition. You can continue by perpetually boycotting the current illegitimate and rigged electoral system and system in general, presenting genuine solutions of your own, and even perhaps running for local office. There are so many things you can do or at least try. Your vote doesn't matter, but your attitude does. And your attitude can eventually make it matter.