Do you know what it is? Your relationship with the state? What you are, as a voter, is you are inheriting a 300-year abusive relationship. It’s like you’ve had a 300-year marriage to a guy who beats the shit out of you every day. Now, yeah, in the beginning, yeah, he was weaker, he was smaller, he didn’t beat you up. But he’s been working out! He’s now about 10 times your size and he beats the shit out of you every day. And after 300 years of this marriage, you’re running around saying, ‘Oh, no, you see this time he’s going to change, he’s going to be better, he’s going to be nice to me, he’s going to give me what I want, he’s going to bring me flowers, there’s going to be romance and ponies!’ It’s crap! It’s bullshit! They take, with guns, and throw millions in jail. This is an abusive relationship and, after 300 fucking years, wake up to the reality to what it is! It is brutality with rhetoric. It is a fist in the glove of kindly speeches. And what do you do after a 300 year abusive relationship where you get beaten up more and more every day? You get a divorce! You walk away, you take your pride and leave! You don’t legitimize a violent, coercive, brutal, hierarchical, hegemonic system by pretending that you have a say; by pretending that the brutality of war and empire and violence and enslavement and coercion and jailing. The rape rooms of prisons have millions of people in them. The vast majority of whom ended up there because they carried the wrong type of vegetation in their pockets. This is a fascist, brutal dictatorship and if you participate you are saying it is voluntary. You are trying to work with the illusion that, if you vote, the gun will be pointed at some one else than you. But it won’t; Obama, McCain, doesn’t matter. No matter who you vote for, the government still stays in power. Stefan Molyneux, “The Truth About Voting” (via uglyuglyugly)

(Source: anotheranonymousanarchist, via uglyuglyugly)

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