Nothing Important Ever Came From Voting
A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming Ungovernable
The end of slavery, labor rights, free refills at Chipotle. None of it ever came from a ballot box.
It always comes from revolt. From mass escapes on the Underground Railroad. From streets burning in 1968. From the bomb at Haymarket.
Then, when your overlords got scared enough, some clown in a suit signed a paper and called it democracy.
Congress only passed the 8-hour day in 1916 because of the strike scheduled for the following week. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act one week after the fires.
People who think they’ll vote their way out of anything important got their history books from the same clowns who sign the laws.
Join the resistance. Begin today:
Learn your neighbor’s name. Borrow a tool. Return it with a gift. Great. You’ve formed a union.
Steal a pen from a government office. They took your afternoon first. And a chunk of your salary.
Skip your weekly outrage post. Your indignation against “the other side” is just unpaid marketing for the circus.
Sit next to the “keep off the grass” sign.
Take the full tour of city hall. Ask which room they keep the money they took from you.
Return every piece of prepaid junk mail empty. They pay the postage both ways.
At the bank, take all their leaflets. You’ve paid for them. With interest.
Use the office printer to print this list. Or boobs.
Appeal every parking ticket. Win or lose, you’ve cost them more than the ticket.
Make eye contact while jaywalking.
And await further instructions.