I Don't Vote.

" Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says, "They suck". But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. No, they come from Indian homes, Indian families, Indian schools, Indian jails, Indian businesses, and they're elected by Indian voters. This is the best we can do, folks. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. 

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Indians. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks.'

I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: On Election Day, I stay home. I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a fucking thing. 

And secondly, I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, "If you don't vote, you have no right to complain", but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain.

I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for what these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that YOU created. "

-- George Dennis Carlin, 1996, Back in Town. 

Why am I posting this? Election Day for us is right around the corner and everyday someone is coming up to me and asking if I'm voting, and everytime I recreate this piece of art for them, or as much as I can remember. Then I leave them searching for a quick comeback.

So this one goes out to all those dumb-fucks who keep pressing me to vote. I don't want to vote!! I dont give a shit, and neither should you. It's a wasted effort until some of those helpful, selfless, clean and honest people who are apparently in this god forsaken country, stand up to take the seat. If I ever vote, I'm not going to vote on some farce and false promises, I'll vote for the government that gets the job done, and more than anything gives a fuck about the public. So the next time you feel like defending your "Right to Vote", your right to "Create change, be someone, own something" you better realise that all of this is a lie. You don't own shit, and neither do the politicians!!

The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Parliament, the Political parties, the courts, the municipality. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend crores of rupees every year fighting – fighting to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

And I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 52 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Long-term Investments. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Dalal Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club.