{"id":1072,"date":"2014-11-04T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2014-11-04T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T11:00:11","slug":"election-2014-why-i-opt-out-of-voting-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Election 2014 \u2013 Why I Opt Out of Voting | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"

Election 2014 \u2013 Why I Opt Out of Voting | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This year, my wife and I will \u2013 for the second time in our adult lives \u2013 not vote. Previously, I would have seen this stance as\u00a0many people do: as an irresponsible act. The ritual of voting is very much like taking communion in church for half of this country.<\/p>\n

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As a father, I want to raise responsible adults, which is why my wife and I will not be heading to the polls this election.<\/p>\n

I want to always help my children understand that they are sovereign men and women,\u00a0and have no obligation to any government.<\/p>\n

When it comes to voting, my wife and I are personally opting out of the system. There are a lot of reasons for us not to vote, but at the core it comes down to not wanting to enforce our will on others. I\u2019m fine with making our voices heard, but when the vote has a direct impact on how much money is stolen from another family, I want nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

Both Democrats and Republicans support militarism, taxation, spying on us, inflation, redistribution of wealth, Keynesian economics and corporatism once they get in office.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Election 2014 \u2013 Why I Opt Out of Voting | Liberty Blitzkrieg. This year, my wife and I will \u2013 for the second time in our adult lives \u2013 not vote. Previously, I would have seen this stance as\u00a0many people do: as an irresponsible act. The ritual of voting is very much like taking communion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[204,677,858],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democracy","tag-republican-vs-democrat","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}