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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
what I am talking about is social revolution towards unity. Voting is precisely the opposite of this. And further, I am talking about organizing to to real good and take real power back. This was the true success of the 1960s, because openly and honestly people did not even have the options of voting, and so they did what they could themselves because they had NOT FAITH in the BRUTALLY CORRUPT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. Well my friends, it is the SAME GOVERNMENT TODAY as back then...
Not voting, I want people to become involved in all the problems directly, not vote for some other dude to take care of them. WE OURSELVES need to go into the volunteering, go to the hospitals, the schools, and parks, the malls, the old-folks homes, the homless shelters, the refugee settlement agencies, the welfare/social security offices, we need to all organize together and each one pick up the slack, rather then continue on with four more years of "i'm sure that someone I voted for will take care of all this shit everywhere, instead of me actually doing it..."
voting is a myth, you actually have to go out there and do something!
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What you are wishing for is a kind of "local" anarchism - again, fine in theory, but it would never work in practice.
I would say that there are plenty of people here who do, quietly, help out in ways that you discuss. People who give a shit about their local communites and do take part in making their little piece of this planet a better place, both for themselves and others. However, we live in a democratic system, and voting is the way that our democratic "rights" are exercised. Now again: short of persuading the entire goddamn electorate to not vote, what practical, achievable solutions do you have as an alternative to voting? The age of mass protest is over, and the State is incredibly effective at clamping down on that now...