Isn't not voting a form of voting? If I don't use a product or service in the marketplace, as a consumer am I not in effect voting against the longterm interests and wellbeing of those products and services? What happens when everyone stops using a product or service? That product or service vastly changes before the last consumers depart or when the last customer walks out, off go the lights and they lock the doors for good. That's called real change!
My choices to not use these services or products also lead to economic harm and wellbeing to good, decent people in the process but yet no one cries harm or foul against me or other consumers when we makes such obvious draconian market decisions. Never heard anyway decry me for being un-human or even un-American. In fact, market choices like this are celebrated as the greatness of the American economic ideal. Why then am I denied, chastised or called out when I make market choices in the political marketplace when it comes to it's products and services it offers?
Is it because some got conned into buying lemons all these years? I use to buy lemons too, lots of them and of a specific variety and yet one day I realized that no matter how many lemons I bought and how often I bought them, nothing changed and I was always left with a very bad taste in my mouth. In some cases I even found myself hating other lemon consumers because I thought that their buying a different variety of lemon was the reason nothing worked out but then I looked close at their lemons too and realized their lemons really were exactly like my lemons. We both were eating the same lemons, having the same bad taste in our mouths and when we were done, neither of us were ever satisfied.
So as a smart consumer in the marketplace, should I actually buy a product that does me no good and in fact always leaves me dissatisfied and even still, leaves me in a worse condition after the fact? Am I denied an opinion or voice in the marketplace as to why I think that product or service doesn't measure up and if I think or know that another product on the market is better? But what happens if there is true market suppression of other market choices? But you know we have a free market so my thinking here is just delusional so therefore I should shut up and buy them lemons like everyone else.
What if IMO there existed no such product at all and therefore as a consumer I make other market choices to compensate or no choice at all, am I still denied the right of a voice especially if the product or service chosen by the masses greatly impacts my life regardless of my not choosing it?
When no candidate running meets the voter's expectations, beliefs, ideals, (the product or service doesn't measure up) is not voting for any of those candidates still a wrong? No, not voting is another way of saying "None of the above" or in the marketplace, "I'm not buying that today!"
Sleeve,
Stick to your guns cause you are absolutely right. Besides, in all this voting back and forth, this candidate or that candidate, this party or that party, no matter what, everything just keeps getting worse and yet we have voters who close their eyes, shut their ears and tell me, "yeah it's bad but you just wait until our guy gets elected!"
I use to believe that nonsense too!
Like the "Sun Ray of Ra" the cracks in your nationstate mythology grow by the day!
