From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 16:18:58 MDT
Market forces. People who want to be in power can obtain positions in
government by buying votes ("legitimately" or otherwise) more easily as the
number of voters who actually vote falls. If fewer people vote for you, your
position in power is more vulnerable to challengers. As the cost of
displacing you falls, more people will try.
Of course, I think this whole system of voting for mutually exclusive
choices in a centralized system inevitably leads to sad decay, as opposed to
a situation of governance in which many choices can coexist and
decentralization of power is the rule of the day.
And the first paragraph above really doesn't help the libertarians all that
much unless they're rich libertarians.
Reason
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:29 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: RE: RE: Patriotism and Citizenship
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>
> From: Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu>
> > Depriving a government of legitimacy by not voting does weaken it.
>
> Again, I ask HOW. You just repeated your assertion. Could you please
> elaborate how not voting weakens the government?
>
> ---
> Louis Newstrom
> louisnews@comcast.net
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