Becoming an Anarchist ?

This is a question that I’m asking to myself and to whoever get to this website.

As an anarchist, should you refuse to vote and therefore loose the only control you could have over the government, but in the meantime make a statement by demonstrating your oposition to the system ? I’m not sure that you would call that civil desobediance, but you get the point, right ?

Or should you vote and try to find a candidate that fits with your beliefes, or, in the end, the “lesser of the two evils” ? For instance if I could vote in the USA today, I would vote for Obama… but then again I seriously doubt the democratic system, so would that make sense to vote ?

I honestly don’t know since I’ve heard from people believing either one or the other and I can’t make up my mind about it. Good that I still have time since I don’t define myself as an anarchist and I have a few years ahead of me since getting to vote again.

The American election campaign is still going on, millions are spent.

But for what ? When I speak with American citizens they still end up with the same arguments such as “Obama said [insert something here] 20 years ago, he shouldn’t be president”, “McCain made [insert a mistake here] 35 years ago ! How can I vote for him !”. It is also about who is the best christian, the best black guy, the best war veteran, the youngest, the oldest…

The ones actually looking at the programs are rare.

It was the same in France for the 2007 election. People will vote based on some factors that should not influence their decision… and the politics will spend a lot of money trying to look as good as possible.

Of course there will be some debates, but the people watching these debates have usually made up their mind. They don’t want to be convinced ! They just want to see the opponent of their guy getting beat up. And if he doesn’t, they’ll say he did anyways.

People don’t know how to pick a leader. It’s all about apparences… what’s the point ?

In the end you can be sure that a lot of people will vote for Obama because he is black and a lot for McCain because he is not. Should that kind of factors influence a vote ? Well… no !

Let’s take a look at this marketing operation :

(via marketing alternatif via bloguerrilla)

Oh yeah, that’s good politics right here. “Lol poop ahaha nao let’s vote”.

Democracy FAIL

Welcome to this new blog of mine.

First of all you have to know that I’m not a native english speaker, so I’m sorry if I do some mistakes, you can correct me in the comments I don’t mind.

So let’s get to the point : during the past months I felt 3 things :

• My government (French) is a joke. So is the USA’s and pretty much all governments.
• The concept of democracy is a faillure
• Frontiers is a ridiculous concept

After a life of believing blindly in democracy, it was kind of anoying to discover that all what I was standing for was to throw away. Well, I’m not that old, so I guess that’s alright…

Anyways, after realizing that I had to find an alternative to my previous way of thinking about the whole “political scene”. After a while I found articles about anarchism and it shocked me that I agreed with a lot of theories and that the anarchist really had a good point.

So the idea behind this blog is to tell you about the process of me learning more about anarchism. I’m not sure if I will end up proclaiming myself as “an anarchist” or if I will just go back to voting hoping that someday people will be less stupids. Or something else. Let’s just see how that goes, ok?