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Midterms: The Madness of Statism

Midterms: The Madness of Statism

The ritualistic sacrifice of voting to fill seats within the state inevitably harms people, because it perpetuates the state.

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Nov 09, 2022
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As a voluntaryist-anarchist who opposes the polis on moral, religious, and philosophical grounds, I long-ago stopped voting for people to fill the offices of the immoral political world that I already oppose.

Doing so means that I would be offering my overt approval of making my neighbor pay for that politician’s salary, via tax cash extracted from my ne…

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