Voting as political narcotic in the US

Voter turnout has not been sufficiently low to forcefully discredit, dishonor and de-legitimise American democracy. Though low, it has become an accepted norm, allowing the manufactured myth to continue - that we live in the world’s greatest democracy, though nothing could be farther from the truth.

Held secretly in private hands is proprietary source code that instructs the voting machines on to how to count the vote. More than one-third of all votes cast in our nation are made on touch screen machines driven by proprietary source code and 90 per cent of all votes cast are counted by software that’s unverifiable.

No sane American should trust the political system, the politicians, and the voting process. And when you cannot trust all three, you have a fake democracy. Many of us thirst for major change, but mainstream politicians simply exploit this and lie. By voting for any of them we ensure no serious change. The way to shake up the system is to boycott voting.

True, we have plenty of passive non-voters, a good head start. Now we need active, vociferous non-voters - proud protestors and dissidents urging others to join the civil disobedience to reach the tipping point for revolutionary change.

Massive, unprecedented non-voting has the power to produce systemic political reform by defiantly discrediting, dishonoring and de-legitimising America’s fake democracy. When I choose not to vote I do not make the votes of others more important. Their votes already serve an evil system. The critical choice is to vote or not vote, not picking a particular Democrat or Republican. When I choose not to vote I embrace an honorable, patriotic rebellious act of civil disobedience. I no longer buy the BIG LIE that there still is an American democracy worth participating in. As James Madison said, "Conscience is the most sacred of all property".

Voting - especially lesser-evil voting - sustains our fake democracy more than any other citizen action. It lets politicians claim that they represent the sovereign people. It tells the world that our elected government has public support. Voting sends the wrong message to everyone. No matter whom you vote for, voting says the political system is fair. It is not.

Mass non-voting sends the message of rejection - as powerful as using guns. The Second American Revolution begins with a boycott of voting: We must work together to drive voter turnout down to abysmal levels - so low that everyone gets the rejection message.  We must let the world know - and America’s power elites fear - that we sovereign Americans intend to take back our government.

See it as a populist recall of the federal government that would make our Founders proud.

This action would be followed by demanding what the Founders gave us in our Constitution: the right to call a convention of state delegates that could propose Constitutional amendments, which would reform our political system to make it honest and trustworthy again (learn more at www.foavc.org).

Why have we not had a constitutional convention in over 200 years? There is only one logical explanation: an intensely watched convention could wreck the political status quo and take away the power of those running and ruining our nation. That so many Americans fear a convention just shows the success of the social conditioning and political narcotics the elitist plutocracy has imposed for decades. Imagine an amendment that required at least a 90 per cent voter turnout for federal elections to produce a winner.

When it comes to our nation, our choice is not to love it or leave it, but to accept the painful truth and take responsibility for restoring American democracy - because we love it. Let’s move forward with this slogan: "Don't vote - it only encourages them."