Ep. 15:  How I Plan to Vote (or Not) and Why (Roderick Long)
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 17/10/2020

Does Roderick Long plan to vote in the upcoming (November 2020) election?  If so, for whom, and why?  Or if not, then why not?  If these questions have been keeping you anxiously awake at night, answers are gloriously at hand!


Here are some links to items mentioned in the discussion:

Voluntaryist arguments against voting:  
- Wendy McElroy:  http://www.wendymcelroy.com/hitler.htm
- Carl Watner:  http://voluntaryist.com/tag/is-voting-an-act-of-violence-by-carl-watner/
- George H. Smith:  http://voluntaryist.com/non-voting/party-dialogue-george-h-smith/#.X4o1te1rzcs

Lysander Spooner on voting:  http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm#NT.6.2.7

Bonus:  Herbert Spencer on voting:  http://praxeology.net/Spencer-on-voting.htm

Charles Johnson on Agorist strategy:
- Blog post:  “In Which I Fail to be Reassured”:  https://radgeek.com/gt/2008/01/26/in_which/
- Video interview:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO9AtSwjV1s 

“Come out from the unclean thing”:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come-outer

Bonus:  Some of Roderick Long’s past pieces on voting and related matters (the older they are, the less of their content he would currently endorse):  
- “Looking for Daylight:  Minarchist Strategy’s Missteps” (2018):  https://c4ss.org/content/51299
- “The Benefits and Hazards of Voting” (2016):  https://aaeblog.com/2016/11/06/the-benefits-and-hazards-of-voting/
- “On Making Small Contributions to Evil” (2008):  http://praxeology.net/SmallContributions-REVISED.doc
- “In Defense of Voting (sort of)” (2006): http://aaeblog.com/2006/11/06/in-defense-of-voting-sort-of/
- “In Defense of Voting (sort of), Part 2” (2006):  https://aaeblog.com/2006/11/23/in-defense-of-voting-sort-of-part-2/ 
- “Thinking Beyond the Next Election: A Strategy for Victory” (1996):  http://praxeology.net/nextelection.htm

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