# Russell Madden at Atlas Magazine – The Miracle of Voting – Mr.

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Russell Madden at Atlas Magazine –

The Miracle of Voting – Mr. Madden teaches a college class, with a
simple hypothetical example, that theft is still theft no matter how
many people vote for it. [clairefiles]
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Unless and until all voters understand the true nature of modern-day
voting as a means to distribute other people’s wealth (rather than as
merely a procedural means to elect those who will guard and protect
our rights); unless and until they realize that it is wrong — immoral
— to rob Peter to pay Paul and vice versa, we will continue down the
path to a burgeoning State and a diminishing freedom.

I accept and acknowledge that such a sea-change in awareness and
action among people today is unlikely to occur anytime soon. But there
was a time not so long ago in this country when most citizens realized
that they had no claim on the lives of other Americans. If such
attitudes prevailed once, they can gain ascendancy again.
[End the War on Freedom]

A clear and simple explanation of what voting really means.