"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
To Vote Is To Choose Your Masters
Today, democracy and all of its many accouterments make up an extravaganza for celebrating and purifying the acts of the modern, total state. Free market anarchism simply calls for a democratic ideal wherein unchained individuals would resolve problems and come to conclusions through nonviolent channels of action.
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"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters." ~ No Treason – The Constitution of No Authority (1867-1870) by Lysander Spooner
Morpheus: You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... Remember, all I'm offering is the truth, nothing more....[1]
The Blue Pill: To Vote Is To Choose Your Masters
The Red Pill: If one possesses the political right to vote, it means that he has already chosen his master.
It's not whether a man votes, or not, it's whether he is "entitled" to vote, i.e. has been given the political "right" to vote, or not, that determines who, or what, his master is. Only those individuals who have voluntarily "submitted themselves to the dominion of [the] government" (citizens/subjects[2]) have a "just claim" to that "entitlement".
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed [entitled] to choose a new master once in a term of years. ~ Lysander Spooner
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[1] The terms redpill and its opposite, bluepill, are pop culture terms that have become a common symbol for the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes[sic] painful truth of reality (red). ~ Wikipedia
[2] Subject. ...Men in free governments are subjects as well as citizens; as citizens they enjoy [political/civil] rights and franchises; as subjects they are bound to obey the laws. Swiss Nat. Ins. Co. v. Miller, 267 U.S. 42, 45 S.Ct. 213, 214, 69 L.Ed. 504 (Source: Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition (c.1991), page 1425 [Bracketed information & emphasis added]
See that word "franchises" in the definition directly above?
Disenfranchisement. ...In a more popular sense, the taking away of the elective franchise (that is, the right of voting in public elections) from any citizen or class of citizens. ~ Ibid., page 468