Russell Brand and another WTF OP/ED

[Brian37]

I'd like to point out that Russel Brand isn't actually an atheist. Turns out we don't have to take credit for his idiocy ( not that we would have to, as you seem to think we would ).

He could have fooled me the way he trashes religion.

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I do not vote for the same reason that he does not vote.

Voting honestly does not change a thing, because there has been no apparent difference between Republicans and Democrats for many elections. Both parties cater more to the corporations who support them than the people.

How is a corporate monopoly any less a dictatorship than one person or one party having the majority of wealth and power?

You think ending the open market will end abuse? Anarchy is as much a utopia as any other simplistic ideology thrust on a complex species. One word ideologys don't fucking work.

I don't want the west to become China, India, Cuba or Somalia just because I don't like the disparity.

A POWER will be set up in lew of voting, and unless you have the money and the wealth to be that power, you are most likely the one to be fucked by that attitude.

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But doesn't vote himself, says he won't vote because it does not work. My question to this moron is, what would you replace it with?

Not quite: RB doesn't vote because none of the people he can vote for represent his most important values. He's apathetic because UK democracy (and Party Politics, generally) doesn't provide for those who don't align with the views of the largest parties; it marginalises those with alternative views and let's face facts, RB's views are pretty marginal. The South Park 'Douche vs Turd Sandwich' analogy is applicable here.

He's said before that he'd simply widen the choices available by ending party alignment.

If he is for more choices, then how does he think ending voting would accomplish that? It wont, it will do just the opposite. If he wants more choices then he needs to form his own party and compete.