Why voting is violence

‘Not part of the sheeple anymore’ writes:

As we near the elections, people are being whipped into a voting frenzy. Unfortunately few know, due to centuries of dangerous statist indoctrination, that they are becoming implicit to the grossest act of violence (re: corruption, theft etc). So is the believe that we need to negate our freedom to a middleman (a government), a deceptive fallacy that leads to enslavement without chains. Voting also perpetuates the ironic lie that people can not govern themselves but can govern other people.

I will henceforth quote two writers much more eloquent on the subject than myself. First off is Hans Sherrer:

“Voting is the most violent act someone can commit in their lifetime. This little noted anomaly about voting is directly related to the modern conception of the State as an entity deriving its grant of authority to act from the consent of the governed. The aura of legitimacy surrounding the government’s actions is enhanced by the perceived role of voting as an expression of the “people’s will.” Whether non-threatening or violent, the authority for each and every one of the government’s actions is presumed to flow from the consent of the people through the electoral process. The idea the State derives its power to act from the consent of the people sounds romantic. Few people, however, are aware that by definition the State’s power is for the specific purpose of engaging in acts of violence. No grant of power is necessary for anyone, or any organization to act peacefully. The legitimising impact of voting on the government’s exercise of power intimately involves voters in the use of that power. Which means that non-voters tend to delegitimise the exercise of a government’s power as an expression of the “will of the people.” So if no one voted in an election or only a small percentage of people did, the government couldn’t profess to be empowered to act as an agent of the “people’s will.” Without the protective cover provided by voters, the government would have no pretense to act except as a law unto itself,” said Sherrer.

Another of the many Anarchist/Voluntaryist exponents, Darrell Anderson, writes the following in his essay “Tyranny of one, Tyranny of all”:

“Political voting is mob rule, an act of abdicating self-responsibility and self-government to be ruled by others. Political voting is the illusionary act of empowering people to steal on behalf of others. Political voting is theft by proxy. Political voting is about power, not consensus”. Anderson goes on to say that “registering to vote condones that process. Registering to vote indicates a willingness to be enslaved because in every vote the outcome is always the same — plunder under the colour of law. The only thing unknown until the ballots are counted is who gets plundered”.

In short: Voting is the tyranny of the masses.