Voting is just a suggestion box for slaves. Those who need rulers and managers are not qualified to choose. Beggars can not be choosers. In a sense, asking people to make political decisions is like asking them to forecast the weather. They’re not in a position to do so, and it is silly to expect them to. Democracy entails people who run their businesses well being forced to run their businesses poorly by people who can’t run businesses at all. My rights and decisions are not up for discussion, let alone a vote, whether it be 75% of the population, the will of one king, or the whim of 100 senators. Remember that the proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters. Propaganda, too, would bombard this passive resistance to statism; not only that put out by the politicians of all parties - the coalition would be as complete as it would be spontaneous - but also the more effective kind emanating from seemingly disinterested sources. All the monopolists, all the coupon-clipping foundations, all the tax-exempt eleemosynary institutions - in short, all the “respectables” - would join in a howling defense of the status quo. That is probably true, seeing how since the beginning of time men have sought to acquire property without laboring for it.