{"id":36412,"date":"2016-04-22T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36412"},"modified":"2016-04-22T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:35:20","slug":"the-boycott-option-just-say-n-o-p-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=36412","title":{"rendered":"The Boycott Option: Just Say &#8212;> N. O. P. E.!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Healdsburg, CA<br \/>\nApril 21, 201<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of American citizens are not ready to participate<br \/>\nin a violent revolution even though many are thoroughly disgusted by<br \/>\nour political system.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of this otherwise bleak situation, a new option has<br \/>\nemerged as an alternative to voting for the two major party<br \/>\ncandidates, voting for a third-party selection&#8230;&#8230;.or staying home.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called N. O. P. E. and constitutes a sophisticated form of<br \/>\nelection boycott.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellihub.com\/how-to-stop-this-election-madness-in-exactly-61-days\/\">http:\/\/www.intellihub.com\/how-to-stop-this-election-madness-in-exactly-61-days\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similar in spirit to Ralph Nader&#8217;s &#8220;none of the above&#8221; idea from the 1990&#8217;s,<br \/>\nit is a peaceful way of throwing a monkey wrench into the machinery<br \/>\nof our present party system while remaining within the Constitutional<br \/>\nframework established by our Founders.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nader.org\/1994\/08\/26\/none-of-the-above\/\">http:\/\/blog.nader.org\/1994\/08\/26\/none-of-the-above\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely a long-shot approach. But what are millions of<br \/>\ndisaffected voters supposed to do besides write nasty letters to<br \/>\ntheir Congressmen, kick the TV after watching all the bad news or<br \/>\nwaste their time and energy on false prophets like Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>By taking the time to vote while not actually pulling the lever for one<br \/>\nof the presidential candidates, you can record your disgust with the<br \/>\navailable choices.<\/p>\n<p>This will produce a quantifiable measure of those withholding their<br \/>\nconsent and a way of showing massive displeasure with any future<br \/>\nclaim to legitimacy by whoever &#8220;wins!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This idea provided by Bret Redmayne-Titley in his long essay is<br \/>\nan invitation to do something potentially meaningful in the context of<br \/>\nthe current election that has a high likelihood of getting the attention<br \/>\nof other voters, the media and whoever ultimately prevails in the<br \/>\n2016 race for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Please read and reflect on what he wrote. See if you agree that this<br \/>\nmay somehow work to slow the erosion of our rights, reverse the trend<br \/>\ntowards tyranny and restore the vision of liberty that inspired previous<br \/>\ngenerations.<\/p>\n<p>We can make America great again&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.with or without Mr. Trump!<br \/>\nIn order to do so, we must take action and this is one unique avenue<br \/>\nthat might have an impact!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about just saying N. O. P. E.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}