Are you really considering voting? Like going down to an electronic voting machine that is set up in an official building owned by the government (the people?) - How boring.
No one person is going to be able to save this country from it's internal chaos and toxic havoc abroad, sorry... If you vote by using a pencil or a touch screen or whatever machine, you are wasting your time and energy. It does not matter and in fact voting stopped mattering the day that corporations began to ravage and plunder the world, sorry... We are contributing to our own demise with each election.
The words of the weary will be heard and serve as alchemy for a rising generation of revolutionaries/anarchists. Think of them as invaders of our every comfort and security. Sure they may appear misled and full of youth. LEAVE THEM ALONE. You were once just like them, but chose the pen over the paint brush, and a steady paycheck over lending a helping hand. HA! those days ended the day allowances were given to kids. In America, GREED is the over-ruling motivational factor. And we will scare the shit out of you until you hand over what we want, sorry...
If you're a kid (i don't care what age you are) and you're reading this, keep tearing the flags of nations up and sewing them all together into the rainbow that we really are. It's the spirit inside that every system is seeking to steal. No original thought allowed, only patents and trademarks here. No democracy, it's just a fancy name for the religion called capitalism. I think what you're after is something that only aliens and the internet will ever be able to offer. A reminder of our pure connectivity. Our skinless soul that we all dangle from, like a sphere in space, spreading out into a timefree expansion.
Never stop drawing or throwing paint on the walls. And if you are one of them that have been tricked into quitting yourself, let this post serve as validation for what you are constantly thinking about. That gradual decision to be one of them and dissolve yourself away. It's true you've wasted many years and have only left an impression of wealth upon your subscribers who soon will abandon you for what reminds them of who they believed you once were.
Past the point of no return? Well I don't know, knowing that requires an individual personal analysis. I suspect millions feel doomed by the choices that they have made and the time that they have wasted. Any allegiance to any party, religion, policy, or fashion is a red flag and a sure sign that maybe you should pay a little more attention. Try thinking for yourself some more. Try voting for you.
"The corporation is an externalizing machine (moving its operating costs to external organizations and people), in the same way that a shark is a killing machine." - Joel Balkan
"Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like." - Lord Thurlow
"Corporations, which previously had been considered artificial entities with no rights, were accorded all the rights of persons, and far more, since they are "immortal persons", and "persons" of extraordinary wealth and power. Furthermore, they were no longer bound to the specific purposes designated by State charter, but could act as they choose, with few constraints." -Noam Chomsky