Yes, I usually vote and I&#x27;ve even run for public office before ( Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, 2008, as the Libertarian candidate. I wasn&#x27;t elected).<p>That said, I am somewhat ambivalent about voting and democracy. I think democracy is basically just a euphemism for &quot;mob rule&quot; and find that whatever systems you put in to try and prevent the &quot;tyranny of the majority&quot; never really work. And if you&#x27;re on the losing end in a &quot;democratic&quot; system, are you really &quot;represented&quot;? I argue that the answer is &quot;no&quot;.  I don&#x27;t hold Richard Burr, David Price, or Thom Tillis as representing me in any way.  I certainly didn&#x27;t vote for any of them, and would&#x27;t if you paid me to.<p>Basically I&#x27;m a voluntaryist &#x2F; anarcho-capitalist &#x2F; market anarchist &#x2F; whatever-term-you-prefer, who wants to eliminate most of &quot;government&quot; <i>as we know it today</i>.  Note that does not mean I&#x27;m in favor of chaos or opposed to communal action (this is something critics of libertarian thought often get wrong.. seemingly intentionally at times).  I just want <i>voluntary</i> exchange and self-government to be the fundamental basis for society, with use of force&#x2F;violence reserved for self-defense.