Why you should vote

My voting history.

George Carlin said “I decline to vote because that implies consent to be governed. I do not consent to be governed. I prefer to be outside of it.”

Years ago I heard George Carlin talking about voting. The first time I heard like minded views

George said:

I don’t vote. Two reasons.

First of all, it’s meaningless. This country was bought and sold and paid for a long time ago. The shit they shuffle around every four years doesn’t mean a fuckin’ thing.

And secondly, I don’t vote ’cause I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around. I know, they say, they say: “well if you don’t vote you have no right to complain”. But where’s the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent people, and they get into office and screw everything up, well you are responsible for what they have done, YOU caused the problem, you voted them in, you have no right to complain. I on the other hand, who did not vote, WHO DID NOT VOTE. Who in fact did not even leave the house on election-day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done, and have every RIGHT to complain as loud as I want, about the mess YOU created, that I had nothing to do with. So I know that a little later on this year, you’re going to have another one of those really swell presidential elections that you like so much. You enjoy yourselves. It will be a lot of fun. I’m sure as soon as the election is over, your country will “improve” immediately.

As for me, I’ll be home on that day, doing essentially the same thing as you, the only difference is, when I get finished masturbating, I’m going to have a little something to show for it folks.

The first time I was told how important it is to vote and that I mustn’t waste my opportunity to vote, is when I turned 18. I was in South Africa at the time. A vote at that time was either for the National party, who were assured of winning the vote by the electorate as they had done at every previous election since 1948, or for a wasted ballot. Why do they say it’s so important that I vote if the outcome is already known, I wondered.

The electorate in that democracy were the 16% of the population who were white. The National Party (The Nats) won every election deciding who would rule South Africa from 1948 until they became the first christian fascist political party to voluntarily cede power in 1994.

A political act made all the more remarkable for knowing South Africa’s apartheid regime had a Samson option available to them but chose good sense diplomacy instead, becoming the only country in the world to have developed and then dismantled its nuclear program.

Party followers in the White Christian electorate included most of the Dutch-descended Afrikaners and many English-speaking white supremacists. The National Party was founded on and dedicated to policies of apartheid and white supremacy. The first election I was eligible to vote for was on 29 September 1978, when Vorster won with 85% of the vote.

A vast majority of a racist white minority voted for a christian version of fascist white supremacy over a vast majority, more than 80%, who were not allowed to vote. But not me. The pointlessness of voting in a pretend democracy was not lost on me at 18. Since then both the pointlessness and the extent of that pretense have both appreciated exponentially.

It was obvious to me then that voting for the so called opposition would make no difference to the outcome. The Nats were going to win. Voting would only make me complicit in the pretense of democracy that was at the same time an erosion of my freedom to choose. I had no interest in a government of Christian fascist racists who openly placed protestors in administrative detention where many died horribly.

Soon after that moment in my democratic voting progress, I left South Africa and never had an opportunity to vote again for decades after that. I lived in the UK as a Greek citizen and had no interest in voting for any politician who represented a political system I believed to be corrupt, notwithstanding the fact that I wasn’t then a citizen and able to vote.

While I was in the UK I saw a majority vote for Margaret Thatcher that was a horrifying reminder to me of the consequences of voting. Years later I watched Blair be elected as a labour leader by labour supporters. Another in your face reminder of the risks of voting in a pretense of democracy.

In my lifetime I have followed elections in Greece, South Africa, England and the US since 1978. Winners elected to lead in high office included Bush, Reagan, Thatcher, Cheney, Clintons, Blinken, Palin, Goldwater, McConnell, Graham, Bowman, Rudio, Pence. Every election winning leader was from the conservative christian racist right, especially the ones who purported to be from the so called left, the Dems in the US and Labour in the UK.

As my time spent spectating in this so called democratic election process passed the thirty year mark I had sufficient data from the four electorates in which I have had opportunities to participate as a voter to form an opinion. Here it is;

Led by the US, the gap between the so called left and right became ever narrower until, to me, they became indistinguishable. There is no opposition party. No two parties. No third party. There is at this time only one Zionist party who populate 99% of their government appointments with Zionists.

During this period of watching people vote, the only election I have seen that produced a credible leader who made a difference was Mandela, the terrorist freed from his life term to win a fair and free election. Other than that, it has been a steady diet of liars and frauds raised to popularity by a media owned by the same corporate interests who own the government. Who own it so completely, I used to watch bemused as pressure groups including many popular celebrities inveigled on the mass media consumers, the majority who watch TV experts explain, “Vote as if your life depends on it.” Because voting matters.who proudly wear ‘I voted’ stickers atop an American flag

The more things changed, the more they stayed the same. Every election presented two alternatives that were marginal variations of the same rich white christian racist ideology paid for by the corporate sector that since the fifties has been increasingly majority owned by Zionists.

The single exception in meaningful opinion shifting democratic elections, Nelson Mandela, was not elected into power. Mandela led an armed struggle against the ruling party that turned into a 33 year civil war that forced the hand of the National Party. It took decades of coordinated Russian backed armed resistance by designated terrorists to force F.W. de Klerk’s hand. Making him choose between endless increasingly violent attritional civil war, or a diplomacy led negotiated peace that took the form of releasing the jailed terrorist to take power. Not just any old terrorist. An atheist card carrying communist. What a thing that was. Small wonder the U.S. never removed President Mandela’s name from their terrorist watch list until he was in his nineties and no longer able to represent a danger to US border policy.

Mandela was not elected at the ballot box in 1994 so much as by his actions as leader of uMkhonto weSizwe, the liberation movement and armed resistance to the elected government, formed after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. When Whites with guns killed Blacks without pass books.

1960 was the year South Africa became a republic following the 1960 South African referendum that would establish Apartheid christian fascism as the only political choice for South Africans. In the first general elections held in South Africa on 18 October 1961, the National Party under H. F. Verwoerd won a majority in the House of Assembly. That was the version of democracy available to every voter in South Africa going forward. Vote NAT or waste your vote.

Nice for some at the expense of others. An early flavor for me at a young age in my efforts towards understanding democracy that began with learning about Athenian democracy.

Conveniently before and after apartheid, many promoted the notion of a democratic South Africa as if was a representative democracy along the lines of every citizen has a vote. The gender inappropriate terminology of “One man one vote.” Yet, I soon learned that in any debate with those smart South Africans I would meet at that time talking about democracy and how a functioning democracy works, the overwhelming majority showed an awareness of what democracy meant limited to cut and paste repetition from the TV news.

I was astonished by the connection between those most anxious to encourage you to vote and how little they knew about democracy. Democracy, it appeared to me, was more like a buzz word they cottoned onto than a political ideology they understood to even the most basic level.

In any conversation about democracy and voting it became important to clarify the awareness of the commentator, that all too often would predict with boring certainty the narrative that followed.

What is democracy. Rule by the people. Which people. Who gets to vote and who does not. Do rich people get to influence more votes than poor people. Will poor people vote for a party in exchange for a financial inducement. Are the less literate more susceptible to suggestion by the smartest snake oil salesmen. In an auction election will the richest buy the most votes every time.

In Athenian democracy at most 10% of the population voted. Essentially it was rich white men who were also the best educated and who paid the most tax. The poor were excluded. As were women, the homeless, and slaves. This affected the voting process for better and for worse. It was a trade off between having no moron idiots voting and rich people voting their self interest above the common good.

From that starting point, understanding the mechanics of democracy and its evolution is important if you are to participate in a democratic voting process.

How can a vote mean anything if the voter doesn’t understand the basic ideology of democracy in the context of how they cast their vote. Like single issue voters, who will vote exclusively for any leader promising, for example; to criminalize mass baby murderers because life begins at ejaculation.

That was the part that irked me. The misrepresentation of democracy in which many who voted did so with an understanding of democracy that was limited to a confluence of their self serving convenience and their ideological illiteracy. It is all too easy to get programmed automations to say what they have been trained to say generationally.

In this process of manufactured ambiguity a series of tropes emerged that would populate every subsequent electoral process I saw that included the need to persuade everyone to vote.

Those like myself who had an idea of how and why Athenian democracy emerged, how it has survived and evolved to become planets most successful form of governance, were somehow excluded from the freedom to not vote for something we did not believe in, like for example, christian fascistoracy packaged as democracy. Or worse still, Zionist baby murder as the inflexible policy of the only candidates on the ballot. the Zionist is blue or the Zionist in red.

You either had to vote or you faced varying degrees of persecution by those who commonly knew less about democracy than a pre teen Athenian 2,600 years ago. Mandatory voting was introduced in many ‘democracies’ that sought to criminalize those who elected to not vote for a party they did not believe in.

22 nations around the world make voting mandatory for its citizens, often starting at age 18. In Australia, failure to vote can result in a $20 fine, although none of these countries appear to actually jail people for non compliance.

Altogether, an estimated 744 million people live in nations with compulsory voting laws. These countries include Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Peru, Thailand and Greece.

And then the day came when I voted for the first time. In highly unusual circumstances. It was the 2020 US election. A new factor had arrived in the democratic process of electing a leader. Now the majority voted against a candidate rather than for the candidate representing the values they wanted to vote for.

Negative inverse voting. The lesser of two evils vote that at the same time made voting serve something other than democracy.

A working democracy is when citizens vote for something they wish to see representing their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Then the outcome of the election sees those elements the majority elected come to fruition. It is a simple process.

Voting against something is not comparable in any way. It is counterintuitive to the ‘life liberty and pursuit of happiness’ analogy that defines a working egalitarian democracy of proportional representation. In the same way that proportional representation that sees 100% of elected government being Zionist in an electorate that is, at most, less than 2.5% Jewish, is clearly not a democratic outcome.

In 2020 I had the opportunity to vote in the US election as a citizen. I was more than comfortable with my voting track record that had produced a 100% successful outcome for me up until that point. However, Trump was running for a second term and despite my strong reservations I was persuaded to vote for the Democrat party as the lesser of two evils.

I had grave doubts about the lesser of two evils, however if I can identify one single reason I agreed, it was the sinister evil of Trumps Zionist allegiance. Watching his Zionist son in law and daughter running the country like a blitzkrieg chosen two super-couple of multi billionaires, entitled to do whatever they wanted in any area of government. Indemnified as a highly paid accomplices to the bone saw murder of an American journalist while grifting billions from Saudi bin Salman in full awareness of anyone interested in looking. Moving the US Embassy to Tel Aviv to promote the Zionist Eretz Ysiarel and openly, transparently, running the US Government as a vassal of Israel, sending billions after more billions to Israel while America’s poorest paid.

I didn’t know then that Biden was a Zionist. I wasn’t voting for Biden and the Dems. I was voting against Trump and Zionism. My mistake.

When I heard Biden speak on October 8, and I heard the 40 beheaded babies story, I knew then exactly what had happened. The first thing I did is google “Is Biden a Zionist” and then I knew with all certainty what would happen next, by which time it was too late to retract my vote for a Zionist genocide.

Voting is a bit like the death penalty in that way. If you make a mistake there is no coming back.

In the 2024 election I voted for the second time. I knew voting makes no difference. I knew variations of “if voting made any difference they would not let you have it.” I knew with a professional familiarity the extent to which American opinions are bought and sold by a big media complex of Television experts and influencers whose ability to indoctrinate a majority into voting for an end to their own democratic freedoms.

I voted in 2024 for the second time in my life more as an act of protest against voting. I knew then what I did not know in 2020 when I voted for Biden. After more than two years of Zionist genocide, I think I am not alone in admitting I know a lot more today than I did in 2020 about Zionism.

Perhaps as a lesson for the future, Politicians running for office should be made to declare an existing relationship with mass baby murder. I would never have voted for Biden if I had known.

In the 2024 election there were two choices, A vote for Zionism, in Harris Blue, or Trump Red. Or a vote for the anti Zionist Jew, a healer, Dr. Jill Stein.

At least now my voting conscience is clear. Which is more than I can wish for those two out of three voters who chose Zionist genocide during an active genocide then claimed they didn’t know the lesser of two evils is evil.

What is the saying, fool me once, more fool me, fool me twice, George Bush forgets.

Imagining you can vote your way out of what the American Two party system has done to constitutional democracy is compounding political ignorance with sub moron idiocy.

The US two party system has evolved into this one metaphor hat affects every American voter who is not a Zionist. According to Israeli daily newspaper Times of Israel, Israel has 41 billionaires as of 2025, which is the fifth highest per capita rate in the world, at 6.7 billionaires for every million people. This includes Drorit Wertheim. A billionaire by Coca Cola deal in Israel. Then consider the list of Jewish Billionaires, most of whom are American.

Consider the net worth of these 41 Israeli billionaires as well as the rest; the Jewish Billionaires who do not live in Israel. Collectively this is multiple trillions of US dollars under Jewish Zionist control.

Keeping that multi trillion figure in mind, ask yourself why the poor people of America elected a Zionist US Government to send tens of billions a year directly from America’s poor to fund Israels right to genocide with impunity.

Voting makes good sense, right.

Those who ignore the mistakes of history are condemned to repeat them. Unless you believe voting for a Zionist led christian fascistocrasy is going to reward you as you hoped it would when you voted.

Extracts are from my book about the creeping rise of Zionism. Half the Story has Never been told. Also on Audible.