EKIP– Expert Club for Economics and Politics A Different Opinion
Щом наближат избори и финансираните чрез държавата (от нас данъкоплатците) изяви на партиите запълнят ефирите и страниците на медиите, от сън се събуждат рационално невежите гласоподаватели и започват да търсят своята опция пред урните.
A little earlier, people like me and my colleagues in BLO and EKIP, as well as others in the political Facebook bubble, had already prepared - they came out with candidacies in the "small city parties" or with their own positions, analyses and assessments of the programs and promises of the future MPs. You can see a few examples: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and most of all HERE.
And despite the progress I see in defending the two most important political issues – the market economy [1] and personal freedom – I remain at my position from the last election.
The optimal behavior from a practical and moral point of view is not to vote. Here's why:
I have no desire to legitimize an immoral system - no matter how much better a parliamentary republic with democratic elections is than the oligarchic dictatorship of the Bulgarian Communist Party, it still leads to voting minorities appointing political cliques that rule by force over the lives of all of us.
No, I have not signed a "social contract". I have not given my consent to almost half of my income being taken by force. I do not want bureaucrats or MPs telling me what to do with my body, my time, my money.
I don't intend to implicitly consent to all of this with my vote.
As Adrian Nikolov well says here: "voting represents active support for the currently existing system of legalized violence and legal robbery"
I am doing my civic duty– citizens (as opposed to tax cattle) are free (and armed) people. A citizen's duty is not to pay taxes or to legitimize foreign power over their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Civic duty is the self-accepted understanding that someone must stand up for personal freedom, as well as that of our brothers and sisters.
It's not that this can't happen at the polls, there can be a variety of ways to achieve what you want. Voting may be a strategy, but it's not the embodiment of civic duty.
I was right not to vote last time– I failed to save screenshots from the previous election campaign, when the Reformist Bloc was the “modern savior”. We were expecting reforms, right-wing politics, intelligence and beauty. Friends foaming at the mouth explained to me that I was “supporting the communists” because I did not support the coalition of tricksters.
Today, the legacy is clear – absolutely nothing. If we examine carefully, it will turn out that the ideas like “tax on unhealthy foods” outweigh the positive ones that came out of the “reformers.”
In general, the strategy of supporting the lesser evil is not very productive, it just encourages it to remain...evil. Similarly, as long as we vote for parties that simply call themselves right-wing (or liberal), but are actually some kind of socialism, the only proposals in politics will be more taxes and more bureaucracy.
In these elections, the "savior party" of the Facebook intelligentsia is another one, which, unlike the newly formed RB+Glas Naroden, has not learned even a little from the mistakes of the previous campaign.
I won't get away with compulsory voting that easily - the introduction of compulsory voting was a direct insult, if not a provocation, by the political class to free citizens.
It wasn't just the classic "bad guys" like the BSP and the Patriots who participated. A significant number of the smart, handsome yellow vests supported the forced vote because they wanted to achieve some of their own political goals or sell their parliamentary vote to push through something more important to their interests during the next questioning in the hall.
It is no coincidence that the Libertarian Society was quite lonely while leading its #VoteWithoutHomot campaign – against compulsory voting.
[1] For example, in the economic program of Reformist Bloc – 2 and Glas Naroden
And since you haven't signed a "social contract", don't you pay taxes? You've posted 5 paragraphs of heated thoughts, the effect of which even a child can tell you will be zero at best. And take it easy with the guns, since you're armed, nationalists.
Who should I vote for since I'm 36 and the banks are chasing me to the bottom and I can't find a job because the employer's title is Bulgaria. I have no protection. It's better to be alone in England. I borrowed 4,000 leva from a bank and so far I've returned 10,500 leva and I still owe them. The rope is better than the bank.