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I was all over the shop. Far left, massively pro-lgbt, anti-gov, anti-authoritarian… but then people on far left started telling me I was obligated to support their chosen politicians and I felt some sort of resentment. I read Colin Ward and I realised that I was an anarchist.
Yep, no one is obligated. When you are subject to electoralism, it does generally behoove you to have some solidarity to keep the worst possible people from the levers of power. You aren't obligated however. No more obligated than those seeking power are obliged to you. Which is usually not at all.
Electoralism and those seeking power are broadly speaking the problem.
Exactly. If the system is going ‘here is a line-up of absolute fucking clowns who are in it for themselves, choose one’ then how can people call it democracy? Financially-incentivised politicians are literally killing people in pursuit of money and this is somehow the best system we’ve got?
Sorry for teenager-like rant, but it really gets my goat.