"It has been asserted that only if you vote do you have any right to complain about what transpires on the political scene....

We would point out, on the other hand, that only by refusing to participate in the game do you retain the clear right to protest what the game produces.

For when you vote, you have not only participated in the system but, in addition, have tacitly agreed beforehand to accept and abide by whatever the system brings forth.

The voter complaining about the outcome of an election is standing on untenable ground. Philosophically, morally and factually, only the non-voter is in a logical position to protest....

When you participate in the political con game, you sanction it."

Editorial April 17, 1971

R.C. Hoiles

"The Orange County REGISTER"

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"The state-or, to make the matter more concrete, the government-consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for  something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting 'A' to satisfy 'B'.  In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L.Mencken  1936