Duffy: A key pillar of the statist belief system is participatory democracy. Everyone gets a say (or vote), no matter how ignorant they are of the inner workings of the system. This way critics like us are more easily dismissed. Normally, 10,000 hours of study would qualify us as "experts," but not in this case. There are no valued experts on the system itself. It's simply assumed to be the greatest system of societal organization ever conceived by mankind. To suggest otherwise is to be dismissed as a heretic.
Hammond: Ah, yes, a huge part of the problem is the compulsion to vote—or as I prefer to describe it, to act to legitimize the criminal organization in Washington. I don't want to bicker over which head of the beast should devour us; I want to slay the beast.
~ Kevin Duffy and Jeremy Hammond, email exchange, April 29, 2026
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