If you ever found yourself in a vastly outnumbered minority, and the majority voted that you had to give up something as necessary to your life as water and air, would you comply? When it comes down to it, does any- one really believe it makes sense to accept the authority of a group simply on the grounds that they outnumber everyone else? We accept majority rule because we do not believe it will threaten us and those it does threaten are already silenced before anyone can hear their misgivings.

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    6 days ago

    I’ve been looking for a very similar zine for a long time. It was against (representative) democracy. It had these bar charts that showed how many people voted for each presidential candidate versus how many people didn’t vote. It was labelled like “nobody wins”.

    If anybody knows what I’m talking about, please let me know. Thanks!