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True. But like it or not, we are in that situation. No one has said it was 'ideal' in any sense, but we are in it. No one chooses their nation of their birth either. If the machine is so bad, people have a choice to leave. If not, they have a responsibility to recognize and react to the situation to make it better, or at very least to make sure it doesn't get worse. Ignoring it in the hope it'll go away is how we got here today. Willful ignorance and inaction is a choice. Educating oneself as to the consequences of our choices, actions or ignorance and apathy are two sides of the same coin.
You are in this situation. I am not. If I were not able to opt out of voting, I would choose death over submission.
People need to understand what a "no-vote" is. Give me liberty or give me death. We are not playing this small, rigged game.
Humanity is in the age of becoming a multiplanetary civilization, and yet we squabble over petty differences and cater to the lowest common denominators.
We have the stars within our grasp and yet most of us clutch towards dramas played out repeatedly for centuries.
I don't want mere healthcare. I want complete unconditional care for every being alive and to ever live in the future. I want to choose the planet I live on based upon my gravitational preferences. I want my intentions and desires to be read near perfectly and frictionlessly satisfied to the maximum possible. I want equal share in cosmic computational capabilities to be operated as a sovereign extension of my mind.
And I want every other being to receive the same according to the magnitude of their consciousness. This includes plants, animals, and beings we have yet to encounter.
Where you see two choices within a political axiom that has total control over the outcomes within your life and the lives of your community, I see only one. The "choices" are simply ritualistic motions of compliance with decisions the ruling class has already made. I engage with that system only at the minimum required in order to maintain material and bodily sovereignty. Voting in an unauditable and openly rigged system, especially after seeing the DNC is rigged, is nothing but an instrument of mass control.
I create a second choice by not participating. Opting out is a non-destructive, peaceful way to withdraw consent and focus energy on alternatives. Every human being can create these sorts of options. That is how government was originally created. All better systems begin with rejecting the smaller visions.
Sure. Fix the system by not fixing the system. Good job. Hope you stay healthy while you wait for all the healthcare you want.
Let me spell it out for you.
There is no fixing that system. It is broken beyond repair. It is a gordian knot, and it requires the same solution.
Do with that knowledge what you will.
Ah yes. Don't fix your badly damaged car for the interim, then when it finally explodes due to inaction, complain that you no longer have a way to get to your job to earn enough money to get a new one.