VOTE: For coffee

It’s the time of year when the lush, gorgeous fall colors are interrupted by obscene and absurd political signage.

A few things the readership might consider before participating in the self-perpetuating circus of voting.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.

If “both sides” agree that voting is critical, it’s safe to assume that they both benefit from your participation and you don’t.

In the real world, if one contracts another to perform a certain service and the contracted party fails to deliver, one has recourse. In the case of the kids that want you to vote so that they might “represent” you and others, a more interesting arrangement is on offer: you vote for them, they vote for whatever they care to vote for (even the opposite of what you explicitly support), and you have no recourse save to wait until next time and to hope that, at that point, the majority of some subset of a registered group of people agree with you.

Nifty.

One can plainly see why those who mulct others insist on the importance of voting.

Instead of voting, consider having a coffee at any local coffee shop; it may remind you of how essential, efficient, optimal, and normal a thing voluntary cooperation is and how bizarre toothy smiles combined with vote begging are.

E.F. FRAZIER

Worley