Yes, you can be a rebel.

[Boojatta]

Don't vote. Voluntarily refuse to exercise the little real power that you have. Powerful people are afraid that you might not vote. Yes, they will retain power, but they will feel unloved.

That was the main proposal for action (actually inaction) in an OP that received many recommendations.

Here it is:
The New World Order: "A technologically advanced form of medieval society"

It received 65 recommendations.

[scarletwoman]

1. Please explain what "real power" our votes represent.

Feel free to use examples from the 2006 election.

[Boojatta]

2. I'd rather not get into that discussion. However, I'm wondering...

if it doesn't matter whether or not you vote, then how can refraining from voting be the better choice?

[scarletwoman]

3. "I'd rather not get into that discussion." Of course not. (nt)

[rockymountaindem]

4. Hey, the people we voted for won

What they do with that power is more or less detached from the process of elections, although any of us who are of age and legal standing can feel free to mount a challenge in the next election. Not voting simply makes it even easier for us to ignore them.

[scarletwoman]

5. "What they do with that power is more or less detached from the process of elections"

Well, "what they do with that power" is the ONLY thing I'm interested in.

The ends never justify the means. If I do not want those ends, I will not use those means.

[rockymountaindem]

6. What means you gonna use?

All the people who bitch about the democratic process never mention what alternatives they propose.

[scarletwoman]

7. I propose alternatives all the time. Do an "author" search on my user name in GD.

Electoral politics is only one small part of the "democratic process".